Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudotraditionalism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-do-tra-di-tion-al-ism
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something which appears to be traditionalism (adherence to traditional views or practices), but is not.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"More important, as even a brief overview of his impressive oeuvre would immediately reveal, he promoted an extraordinary variety of architecture and a versatility in modes of design that encompass high modernism with direct functionalism, art nouveau and art deco, Nordic romanticism, neo-brutalism, pseudotraditionalism, and traditional Japanese residential and teahouse architectures."
"Every few decades, it seems, America is fated to endure a new spasm of pseudotraditionalism, with women encouraged to seek shelter from a brutal world in homemaking."

Etymology

From pseudo- + traditionalism.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does pseudotraditionalism mean?: Something which appears to be traditionalism (adherence to traditional views or practices), but is not.
Where does pseudotraditionalism come from?: From pseudo- + traditionalism.

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