Esperantism

Noun

Esperantism (plural Esperantisms)

1. A feature or affectation of Esperanto.
   • The international language idea would suffer a long eclipse; and when it emerged again, it would be in a form totally free from “Esperantisms” — most probably in the form of simplified Latin.1922, Albert Léon Guérard, A Short History of the International Language Movement, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., page 160
   • We are dealing here not with a poetic convention but with a fundamental characteristic of the language — a characteristic further illustrated in the ability to use grammatical morphemes as lexical units, thereby enriching the vocabulary with a whole series of lexemes derived from essentially...1993, Pierre Janton [aut.], Humphrey Tonkin [ed., tr.], Jane Edwards [tr.], and Karen Johnson-Weiner [tr.], Esperanto: Language, Literature, and Community (Albany: State University of New York Press...
2. The practice of using or participating in the ideals of Esperanto.