polysyllabicism

plural polysyllabicisms

1. uncountableusuallyThe state or characteristic of having a polysyllabic or overly complex style.

   Vocabulary is the meat, blood and bones of language.

   2005 Feb. 15, Susan Elkin, In praise of polysyllabicism, Telegraph.co.uk, Telegraph Media Group

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   It will only facilitate the acquirement of a sesquipedalian diction, having the polysyllabicism without the precision of Johnson.

   1807, W. Taylor, Annual Review, page 274

   If polysyllabicism is considered more 'scientific,' should we not seize the opportunity to call the study of micro-organisms 'mico-organicology'?

   1973, C. G. Dobbs, “Book Review of Soil Micro-Organisms by T. R. G. Gray and S. T. Williams (1971)”, in The Journal of Applied Ecology, volume 10, number 2, page 665