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academese en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /əˌkæ.dəˈmiːz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /əˌkæ.dəˈmiz/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der. New Latin acadēmī̆abor. English academe Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English academese From academe + -ese (“language of”).

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, uncountable) A formal or artificial style of communicating prevalent in institutes of higher education.
    • One way this is communicated is through language use wherein the language of the researcher is often verbose and philosophically or methodologically inaccessible to the nonacademic, also known as academese […] 2016, Anastacia Kurylo, Tatyana Dumova, Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 76:
    • Sometimes during intellectual conversation, I would switch from academese to my native black English vernacular. I would utter observations replete with black linguistic idioms and colloquialisms. 2002, Lory Janelle Dance, Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 51:

Antonyms

plain English

Coordinates

journalese

Relateds

journalese · bureaucratese · legalese

Translations (3)

de Fachchinesisch (artificial style of communicating prevalent in institutes of higher education) · ko 학술적 전문 용어 (artificial style of communicating prevalent in institutes of higher education) · pt academês (artificial style of communicating prevalent in institutes of higher education)