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linguism

noun

Etymology

Back-formation from linguist + -ism.

Definitions

  1. Discrimination based on a person's language.

  2. Competition among or unequal treatment of languages and their speaker communities.

  3. Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Advocacy of languages on a regional basis

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for linguism. 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