Meaning of learnedism | Babel Free

Definitions

A word acquired through formal education rather than through childhood language acquisition.

especially

Examples

“Katharevousa τὸ πλοῖον and the demotic learnedism τὸ πλοῖο mean⟳ 'ship' in general. Demotic πλοῖο is stylistically more elevated than its synonym τὸ καράβι.”

“Furthermore, περ is productive in the Italiot texts, presumably as a learnedism rather than a popular survival.”

“I also hear⟳ clearly his adoption of a perspective indexed by his use⟳ of anthropological terms (for example, he repeatedly uses the word boribot, “context,” a true learnedism, in his current conversations[…]”

CEFR level