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multilingualness

noun

Etymology

From multilingual + -ness.

  1. learned borrowing from linguālis
  2. formed as multilingual — “multi- + lingual”
  3. suffixed as multilingualness — “multilingual + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being multilingual.

    • In the beginning of his book he describes the multilingualness of his home in an interesting way. The family spoke German and Russian at home, he learnt Swedish at school and Finnish at work.
    • He laughed easily, so blasé about his French wife and multilingualness.
    • The persistent metaphorization or seeming cacophony conflated with African languages on the silver screen only serves to further iterate commonsensical notions of African multilingualness as valueless—as lacking in linguistic capital.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multilingualness. 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