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hypercorrectism

noun

Etymology

From hypercorrect + -ism.

  1. derived from correctus
  2. derived from correcter
  3. inherited from correcten
  4. prefixed as hypercorrect — “hyper + correct”
  5. suffixed as hypercorrectism — “hypercorrect + ism”

Definitions

  1. hypercorrection

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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