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| archit. |
study of humanities topics rather than science and engineering (wiktionary.org) |
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having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical (by ext., having no practical importance: As a general matter, we will not consider a protest where the issue presented has no practical consequences with regard to an existing federal government procurement, and thus is of purely academic interest. • For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest. • The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic.  wiktionary.org); theoretical or speculative, abstract, scholarly, literary or classical (in distinction to practical or vocational; from late 19th century: I have always had an academic interest in hacking. wiktionary.org); having a love of or aptitude for learning (I'm more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else. wiktionary.org) |
| archit. |
subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius (wiktionary.org) |
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conforming to set rules and traditions, conventional, formalistic (from late 19th century wiktionary.org) |
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so scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world (wiktionary.org); lacking in worldliness (wiktionary.org) |
| ed. |
belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, also a scholarly society or organization (from late 16th century: academic courses • academic study wiktionary.org) |
| philos., hist. |
belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato (from late 16th century: the academic sect of philosophy wiktionary.org) |
