academesen.
/əˌkadəˈmiːz/, U.S. /əˈkædəˌmiz/ The language or writing style of academic scholarship, especially when considered dry or over-complicated.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups
indenture Englisha1568
water language1702
jockeyism1802
slum1812
Polari1846
stable-language1856
scientificism1860
water-slang1860
Oxfordish1863
galley-slang1867
pitmatic1885
commercialese1910
legalese1911
academese1917
Hollywoodese1920
businessese1921
Hollywoodism1925
trade unionese1927
advertisingese1929
officese1935
sociologese1940
Whitehallese1940
Newspeak1949
patter1949
Pentagonese1950
educationese1958
computerese1960
managementese1961
spacespeak1963
computer-speak1968
techno-jargon1972
business-speak1973
Eurospeak1975
Euro-jargon1976
technospeak1976
doctorspeak1977
corporate-speak1978
medspeak1979
mellowspeak1979
technobabble1981
teenspeak1982
management-speak1986
codespeak1987
1917 W. Durant Philos. & Social Probl. i. i. 31 Suppose we let people know quite simply (and not in Academese) that moral codes are born not in heaven but in social needs.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 146/1 Observations on American journalese and ‘academese’, and sensible comments regarding its future.
1959 I. Pool in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 328/1 The fact that we discuss content analysis in academese indicates the class of things to which we conceive of it as belonging.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 July 818/5 Passages of high seriousness clump along in ponderous academese.
2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Nov. 30/2 Schorr's book..ducks no controversy and lays out a course for innovation in puissant prose, not stodgy academese.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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