Definition of "completist" []

• A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing. (noun)
• 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 (noun)
• Which attempts to collect something completely; as, a completist dictionary, a completist collector (adjective)

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• "And being a serious Sinatra collector myself I prefer to be called a completist, others prefer "nerd", I'm usually one of the louder voices in the chorus of kvetchers."
• "LibraryThing lists these authors as having the most 'completist' fans, ie that those who have one book by the author are likely to have a lot more."
• "I keep hearing that writers/publishers must grab the obsessive-compulsive "completist" readership, the sort of "devoted" kind who become obsessed with a series and WILL NOT STOP until he gets every single book in a series ... and wants a series to never end ..."