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Noun: annalism
  1. The writing of annals.
    "Herodotus is so rich a master of anecdote, asides, anticipations, reflexions, anachronisms, and all the ancillary devices of story-telling, that his work never presents the bald mechanics of a chronicle, the bare bones of mere annalism."

Type of: authorship, composition, penning, writing