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variationism

variationism noun: the sociolinguistic study of variation in usage among speakers of the same language.

Noun

variationism (uncountable)

  1. The sociolinguistic study of variation in usage among speakers of the same language.

Origin of variationism

From variation + -ism.

Questions about variationism

What does variationism mean?
Variationism means the sociolinguistic study of variation in usage among speakers of the same language.
What part of speech is variationism?
Variationism is a noun.

Words near variationism in the dictionary

  1. variation selectors
  2. variational
  3. variational calculus
  4. variationality
  5. variationally
  6. variationism
  7. variationist
  8. variationists
  9. variations
  10. variations of the field
  11. variative

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