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archaicism

archaicism is the alternative form of archaism.

Meaning of archaism

Noun

archaism (countable and uncountable, plural archaisms)

  1. The adoption or imitation of archaic words or style.
  2. An archaic word, style, etc.
    • In this text, the word "methinks" appears to be a deliberate archaism.

Forms of archaicism

pluralarchaicisms

Origin of archaicism

From archaic + -ism.

Questions about archaicism

What is archaicism the alternative form of?
Archaicism is the alternative form of archaism.

Words near archaicism in the dictionary

  1. archaically
  2. archaicise
  3. archaicised
  4. archaicises
  5. archaicising
  6. archaicism
  7. archaicisms
  8. archaicity
  9. archaicize
  10. archaicized
  11. archaicizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archaicism (page history and authors); archaism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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