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Definition of: empiricism
(em·pir′ə·siz′əm) noun
1. Empirical character, method, or practice.
2. Belief in experiment and repudiation of theory; quackery.
3. Philos. The doctrine that all knowledge is derived from experience through the senses.
—em·pir′i·cist noun
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