Meaning of academese | Babel Free

Definitions

A formal or artificial style of communicating prevalent in institutes of higher education.

derogatory, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Sometimes during intellectual conversation, I would switch from academese to my native black English vernacular. I would utter observations replete with black linguistic idioms and colloquialisms.”

“One way this is communicated is through language use wherein the language of the researcher is often verbose and philosophically or methodologically inaccessible to the nonacademic, also known as academese […]”

CEFR level