Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nabokovism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: naboko-vism
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An attitude or turn of phrase characteristic of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977).

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"They are rather little signs to suggest how one might proceed up a road on which I did not do very well myself, the road to pure Nabokovism."
"We both said, well then, let's put together some of the Nabokovisms we've been guffawing ecstatically over behind our hand on this magical white night."
"[…] Nabokovisms, such as his description of cheerful Soviet propaganda as 'this pail of milk of human kindness with a dead rat at the bottom'."
"[…] an irresponsible and profligate imitator (like many of the forty long-listed authors, who seem to be victims of the current epidemics of Nabokovism […]"

Etymology

From Nabokov + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Nabokov

Usage

Inflected Forms

Nabokovisms (plural)

Questions

What does nabokovism mean?: An attitude or turn of phrase characteristic of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977).
Where does nabokovism come from?: From Nabokov + -ism.

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