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hyphenism

noun

Etymology

From hyphen + -ism.

  1. derived from ὑφέν
  2. suffixed as hyphenism — “hyphen + ism”

Definitions

  1. The use of hyphenated terms to describe people's identities, e.g. in Irish-American.

    • What may be called, for want of a better term, the colonial spirit, which is the essence of hyphenism, has persisted in this country to hamper national progress and national unity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hyphenism. 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