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polysyllabicism

noun

Etymology

From polysyllabic + -ism.

  1. derived from συλλαβικός
  2. derived from syllabicus
  3. prefixed as polysyllabic — “poly + syllabic”
  4. suffixed as polysyllabicism — “polysyllabic + ism”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of having a polysyllabic or overly complex style.

    • It will only facilitate the acquirement of a sesquipedalian diction, having the polysyllabicism without the precision of Johnson.
    • If polysyllabicism is considered more 'scientific,' should we not seize the opportunity to call the study of micro-organisms 'mico-organicology'?
    • Vocabulary is the meat, blood and bones of language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polysyllabicism. 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