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nomenclaturism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /nəˈmɛŋklət͡ʃəˌɹɪzəm/

Etymology

From nomenclature + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The conception of language as a nomenclature.
    • Nomenclaturism—the notion that words are essentially names—has thus had a long history; surreptitiously it still pervades much of the discourse about the nature of translation between languages, which have words that ‘name’ different things, or that name the same thing in different ways. 2011, David Bellos, chapter 8, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

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