fossilism
nounEtymology From fossil + -ism.
1
The science or state of fossils.
- April 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Mr. Cottle I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine […]
2
The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
3
A policy of reliance on fossil fuels.
- Suffice it to say that the recourse to nuclear energy magnifies the problems of fossilism.1998, David Bell, Roger Keil, Political Ecology: Global and Local, page 41: