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monosyllabism|mɒnəʊˈsɪləbɪz(ə)m|
[Formed as monosyllabe + -ism. Cf. F. monosyllabisme.]
Addiction to the use of monosyllables; the quality of being monosyllabic.
1804Mitford Inquiry 414 In the spirited and easy flow of that line thus, its monosyllabism is apt to escape the ear's notice. 1824New Monthly Mag. XII. 198 The rounded and sonorous Italian enunciation does not admit of being despatched in the snip-snap articulation compatible with the monosyllabism of our own language. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 774/2 Which..brought back so considerable a part of the vocabulary to monosyllabism.
b. spec. in Philology. (See monosyllabic 2 b.)
1846Worcester (cites Ec. Rev.). 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. 183 It should be observed that triliteralism is not necessarily incompatible with monosyllabism. 1896A. H. Keane Ethnol. 208 Monosyllabism is thus shown to be, not the first but the last stage in the evolution of human speech. |