multisyllabicity
English
editEtymology
editFrom multi- + syllabic + -ity.
Noun
editmultisyllabicity (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being multisyllabic.
- 1964, United States. Office of Education, Cooperative Research Program[1]:
- Because so many of the best utterances of men have been simply phrased, we inevitably respond with profound revulsion against linguistic combinations which are decentralized by multisyllabicity.