nounismn.
/ˈnaʊnɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈnaʊnˌɪz(ə)m/ rare.
A tendency to use nouns in preference to other parts of speech.
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1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. xvi. 467 Adjectivism, adverbism, and nounism, or marked disposition to multiply one or more of the above classes of words.
1988 W. Zinsser On Writing Well (ed. 3) ii. xiv. 119 Creeping Nounism,..a new American disease that strings two or three nouns together where one will do. Nobody goes broke now; we have money problem areas. It no longer rains; we have precipitation activity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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