Meaning of completist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band.
2. A person who champions any philosophy which focuses on the completeness of something.

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Examples

“completist - A dope who tries to have⟳ a complete⟳ collection in some line. The line may be as broad as having all the prozines ever published, or as narrow as collecting all the Golden Atom tales or all official correspondence during one's incumbency in some office. […]”

“Ozzie Train⟳, secretary. Ozzie needs little introduction, other than that he is the remaining half of Prime Press⟳, and a genuine completist.”

“There's no new material on it, just previously issued bits and pieces. That rules out the completist collector. Go figure⟳.”

“But it’s even harder for me, because… I am a completist. Once I start⟳ reading an author’s work⟳, I need⟳ to read⟳ everything that writer has written. I can’t veer away. I need⟳ to check all that author’s books off my mental list. My knowledge of their work⟳ must be complete⟳.”

“But in conversations with people who listen⟳ at speeds higher than 2x, it became clear that many podfasters are above all, completists. That is, they have⟳ an almost obsessive need⟳ to listen⟳ to every episode of a podcast that they decide⟳ to commit to.”

“Then a bunch of commercially cynical books […] designed to capitalize on the wise-man status that his death conferred and (in my case successfully) to separate⟳ Wallace completists from their money.”

“A completist philosopher holds that a definite complete⟳ body of knowledge exists to be discovered.”

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