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etymological fallacy

noun

Definitions

  1. The argument that a word is defined solely by its etymology and that its customary usage…

    The argument that a word is defined solely by its etymology and that its customary usage can therefore be incorrect.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for etymological fallacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA