polysyllabicism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Uncountable

"It will only facilitate the acquirement of a sesquipedalian diction, having the polysyllabicism without the precision of Johnson."
"If polysyllabicism is considered more 'scientific,' should we not seize the opportunity to call the study of micro-organisms 'mico-organicology'?"
"Vocabulary is the meat, blood and bones of language."

Etymology tree English polysyllabic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English polysyllabicism From polysyllabic + -ism.

polysyllabicisms (plural)

polysyllable polysyllabicity polysyllabism

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