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idiasm

idiasm noun: a peculiarity of writing that is specific to an author.

Noun

idiasm (plural idiasms)

  1. A peculiarity of writing that is specific to an author.
    • At present he is but lame — we know who has lamed him — but sooner or later those rivets will be undone; that transfixing bolt will be withdrawn; the idiom, idiotisms and, above all, the idiasms of Shakespeare will be thoroughly understood, and so much that now goes by the board in all modern...1877, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Shakespeare: The Man and the Book

Forms of idiasm

pluralidiasms

Questions about idiasm

What does idiasm mean?
Idiasm means a peculiarity of writing that is specific to an author.
What part of speech is idiasm?
Idiasm is a noun.
What is the plural of idiasm?
The plural of idiasm is idiasms.

Words near idiasm in the dictionary

  1. idi-
  2. Idia
  3. idiacanthid
  4. idiacanthids
  5. idiappam
  6. idiasm
  7. idiasms
  8. Idiazabal
  9. Idiazabal cheese
  10. idic
  11. idigbo

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