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polysyllabism

noun

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of having or using words containing multiple syllables,…

    The state or characteristic of having or using words containing multiple syllables, sometimes as a stage in the development of language.

    • 1936, Martin Joos, "Book Review: The Psycho-Biology of Language by George K. Zipf," Language, vol. 12, no. 3 (July/Sep), p. 202, Chinese polysyllabism is a sort of synthesis, or aggregation, or 'addition' of morphemes and their meanings.

  2. Polysyllabicism.

    • Cumbrous compounds are formed as the names of objects and a character of tedious and time-wasting polysyllabism is given to the language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polysyllabism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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