monosyllabicity

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noun

The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.

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Meanings

nounmonosyllabicity (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.

    He was attractive, in a sinister yet compelling way, but taciturn to the point of monosyllabicity.

    1996, Joan Collins, Infamous, →ISBN, page 113
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    The monosyllabicity of Chinese morphemes and units of writing has certain advantages in the use of operational synonyms of symbols under varying conditions of use.

    1976, Yuen Ren Chao, Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, page 93

    It has often been claimed that linguistic evolution leads toward monosyllabicity and that an artificial international language should therefore contain no disyllabic words.

    2001, Anatoly Liberman, N. S. Trubetzkoy: Studies in general linguistics and language structure, Duke Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 69

Origin

From mono- + syllabic + -ity.

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