Usually means: Excessive adherence to official rules.
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  1. officialism: Merriam-Webster
  2. officialism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. officialism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. officialism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. officialism: Wordnik
  6. officialism: Wiktionary
  7. officialism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. officialism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. officialism: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Officialism, officialism: Dictionary.com
  11. Officialism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. officialism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Officialism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. officialism: FreeDictionary.org
  15. officialism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. officialism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. officialism: Legal dictionary

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  1. officialism: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  The rigid, perfunctory and literal adherence to official duties and regulations
▸ noun:  Officials collectively

Similar:
formalism, red-tapism, departmentalism, proceduralism, institutionalism, redtapism, bureaucratism, churchism, Academicism, standardism, more...

Opposite:
informality, casualness, non-official, relaxed

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Similar:
formalism, red-tapism, departmentalism, proceduralism, institutionalism, redtapism, bureaucratism, churchism, Academicism, standardism, more...

Opposite:
informality, casualness, non-official, relaxed



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