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deitalicization

deitalicization noun: the process of deitalicizing.

Noun

deitalicization (uncountable)

  1. The process of deitalicizing.
    • When Charles Hockett equates ‘much human communication is itself about communication’ (deitalicization mine) with, [people] often indulge in communicative behaviour merely for the sake of the activity’ (1958:585) he obviously has a broader sense of ‘about’ in mind, in fact a different one.1975, Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute, page 30
    • The first change involves parasegmentals, the main question at issue being the deitalicization of LOS.1986, Constantin-George Sandulescu, Clive Hart, editors, Assessing the 1984 Ulysses, Smythe, →ISBN, page 178

Antonyms of deitalicization

Forms of deitalicization

alternative formde-italicization

Questions about deitalicization

What does deitalicization mean?
Deitalicization means the process of deitalicizing.
What part of speech is deitalicization?
Deitalicization is a noun.

Words near deitalicization in the dictionary

  1. deistically
  2. deisticalness
  3. deisticness
  4. deists
  5. deisul
  6. deitalicization
  7. deitalicize
  8. deitalicized
  9. deitalicizes
  10. deitalicizing
  11. deitate

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