experimentalism
- n an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles
- n an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation
the children of psychologists are often raised in an atmosphere of experimentalism
- The arbiters of Asian art didn't always reward such experimentalism.
- For another, the military leaders, who tend to be relatively conservative and rigid, may feel that the endless leftist experimentalism of Mao Tse-tung has retarded China's .
- When Syd Barrett joined in 1965, the band was renamed and redirected, matching Barrett's weirdness and whimsy with orchestral swells and experimentalism.