fossilism

== English == === Etymology === From fossil +‎ -ism. === Noun === fossilism (uncountable) The science or state of fossils. April 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Mr. Cottle I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine […] The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions. A policy of reliance on fossil fuels.