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polysyllabicity

polysyllabicity noun: the state or characteristic of being polysyllabic.

Noun

polysyllabicity (uncountable)

  1. The state or characteristic of being polysyllabic.
    • The drift of the Chinese language toward greater polysyllabicity is seen even more clearly in the fact that not more than 15 percent of the Chinese equivalents of foreign technical terms consist of only one syllable.1943, John de Francis, "The Alphabetization of Chinese," Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 63, no. 4 (Oct/Dec), p. 235
    • "Polysyllabicity" and "utterableness" each has the word-property it designates.2005, Jay Newhard, “Grelling's Paradox”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 126, number 1, Springer, page 2

Questions about polysyllabicity

What does polysyllabicity mean?
Polysyllabicity means the state or characteristic of being polysyllabic.
What part of speech is polysyllabicity?
Polysyllabicity is a noun.

Words near polysyllabicity in the dictionary

  1. polysyllabic
  2. polysyllabical
  3. polysyllabically
  4. polysyllabicism
  5. polysyllabicisms
  6. polysyllabicity
  7. polysyllabics
  8. polysyllabism
  9. polysyllabisms
  10. polysyllable
  11. polysyllables

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