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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pluplural en · NOUN

Etymology

From plu- + plural (blend of plural + plural).

Meanings

  1. (rhetoric) A word that is its own plural; an autological plural form.
  2. A pluralized plural; a variable or term that refers to a collection of plural collections, without reducing them to a single set or composite unit.
    • How will this plural approach translate sentences of DKLish that are themselves plurally quantified? As Gabriel Uzquiano (2004) points out, 'pluplural' quantifiers over simples will be needed... 2009, Theodore Sider, “Ontological Realism”, in Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, page 395:

Forms

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pluplurals Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

plural quantification · plural · plupluralism · mereology

Synonyms

perplural · plurally plural · intensive plural · plural-plural · superplural · superplural