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Japanisms

Japanisms is the plural of Japanism.

Meaning of Japanism

Noun

Japanism (countable and uncountable, plural Japanisms)

  1. A custom peculiar to Japan.
  2. (rhetoric) A word, phrase or linguistic feature typical of Japan.
    1. (rhetoric) Wasei-eigo; Japanese coinages using English words

Questions about Japanisms

What is Japanisms the plural of?
Japanisms is the plural of Japanism.

Words near Japanisms in the dictionary

  1. japanised
  2. japanises
  3. Japanish
  4. japanising
  5. Japanism
  6. Japanisms
  7. Japanization
  8. Japanizations
  9. japanize
  10. japanized
  11. japanizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Japanisms (page history and authors); Japanism (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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