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informalism

noun

Etymology

From informal + -ism.

  1. derived from fōrmālis
  2. derived from formel
  3. inherited from formel
  4. prefixed as informal — “in- + formal”
  5. suffixed as informalism — “informal + ism”

Definitions

  1. A word, phrase, behaviour, etc. that is informal.

    • At other times, in complete contrast, as noted elsewhere (Section 7.3), there is frequent recourse to slang and informalisms. Speech style in this sense is closely connected to footing.
    • The reason we don't, he said, is because our educational system has swung too far in the direction of formal methods and has neglected such informalisms as common sense and natural language communication.

  2. An art movement based on abstract and gestural tendencies rather than definite form.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for informalism. 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