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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

usualism en · NOUN

Etymology

From usual + -ism.

Meanings

  1. Something that is usual, or employed in the usual way; a norm.
    • The average between the stations of ages becomes a normal usualism that they can depend upon in insuring. 1976, Harvey Stallard, Occlusion, page 115:
    • In this communicational mode, language units can be differentiated as usualisms and contextualisms (Fig. 4-6). 2020, Alexander Barkovich, Informational Linguistics: The New Communicational Reality, page 125:

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