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Humpty-Dumptyism

Humpty-Dumptyism is the alternative form of Humpty Dumptyism.

Meaning of Humpty Dumptyism

Noun

Humpty Dumptyism (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) The practice of insisting that a word means whatever one wishes it to.
    • "It seems to be saying one or both of two things. One is that any score that comes out of any procedure that purports to measure intelligence is a value of the scale, intelligence. If so, this would be Humpty Dumptyism."2003, J. A. Keats, Norman Cliff, Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences, page 31

Questions about Humpty-Dumptyism

What is Humpty-Dumptyism the alternative form of?
Humpty-Dumptyism is the alternative form of Humpty Dumptyism.

Words near Humpty-Dumptyism in the dictionary

  1. Humpty Dumptyish
  2. Humpty Dumptyism
  3. humpty-dumpties
  4. humpty-dumpty
  5. Humpty-Dumptyish
  6. Humpty-Dumptyism
  7. humpy
  8. HumpyCase
  9. hums
  10. hums along
  11. Humshaugh

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