Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

diaconnotative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: di-a-con-no-ta-tive
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Concerned with or relating to the ways in which a particular term may have different connotations in different situations.

Example Sentences

"a diaconnotative usage label"
"According to Hausmann (1977, Ch. 8), lexically relevant units can receive — typically by means of labels or usage notes — any or all of the following types of diasystematic marking: diachronic (e.g. archaic, neologism); diatopic (e.g. American English for elevator 'lift', British English for loo); diaintegrative for foreign borrowings used in English (e.g. German for Weltanschauung); diastratic (e.g. informal for loo, formal for perambulator); diaconnotative (e.g. from Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (W9), often used disparagingly for dyke); diatechnical (e.g. law for tort, anatomy for clavicle; diafrequential (e.g. rare); dianormative (e.g. substandard for ain't)."

Etymology

From dia- + connotative.

Questions

What does diaconnotative mean?: Concerned with or relating to the ways in which a particular term may have different connotations in different situations.
Where does diaconnotative come from?: From dia- + connotative.

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