completist

Meanings

Noun

• A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing.
• A person who champions any philosophy which focuses on the completeness of something; as, a completist philosopher who holds that a definite complete body of knowledge exists to be discovered

Adjective

• Which attempts to collect something completely.
• Alternate spelling of completest

Origin

• complete + -ist. Originally from fanspeak, the slang of science fiction fans.
• complete + -ist