completist

  1. Noun.  A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing.
  2. 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.
  3. Adjective.  Which attempts to collect something completely; as, a completist dictionary, a completist collector.

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