PURISM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)

Example:

linguistic purisms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("purism" is a kind of...):

insistence; insisting (continual and persistent demands)

Derivation:

purist (someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words))

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