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polysyllabicity

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The state or characteristic of being polysyllabic.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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  • 1943, John de Francis, "The Alphabetization of Chinese," Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 63, no. 4 (Oct/Dec), p. 235, The drift of the Chinese language toward greater polysyllabicity is seen even more clearly in the fact that not more than 15 percent of the Chinese equivalents of foreign technical terms consist of only one syllable.

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