a collector who aims to gather as a hobby one example of every item in a particular set or category
completist
com·plet·istWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural completists)
- A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing.
- A person who champions any philosophy which somehow includes the completeness of something; as, a completist philosopher who holds that a definite complete body of knowledge exists to be discovered
Adjective
(not comparable)
- Which attempts to collect something completely; as, a completist dictionary, a completist collector
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