Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

segregationalist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: seg-re-ga-tion-al-ist
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.

noun

One who believes that linguistic signs have meaning independent of the context of their use in communication.

adj

Segregationist; supportive of or leading to racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.

adj

Characteristic of segregationalism.

Example Sentences

"In other words, the “'language myth' myth” produces a history of linguistics that is as segregationalist — if not more so — than the linguistics it is purporting to describe."
"According to the orthodox segregationalist view, the essential difference between reading the words 'Open the door' and hearing the words 'Open the door' is that the reader has learnt a set of audiographic correlations […]"

Etymology

From segregational + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: segregational

Inflected Forms

segregationalists (plural)

Questions

What does segregationalist mean?: A segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
Where does segregationalist come from?: From segregational + -ist.

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