HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
Home › Dictionary › English › linguism
← Back to search

Meaning of linguism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Discrimination based on a person's language.
    uncountable
  2. Competition among or unequal treatment of languages and their speaker communities.
    uncountable
  3. Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages
    uncountable
  4. Advocacy of languages on a regional basis
    uncountable

Examples

“1971 David D. Anderson, "Ahmed Ali and Twilight in Delhi: The genesis of a Pakistani novel," MAHFIL: A.Quarterly of South Asian Literature, Spring-Summer 1971. This time, however, the controversy […] dealt with linguism, the problem of, the multiplicity of competing languages in the subcontinent as well as the cultural and political, overtones of the continuing competition among them.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See all B2 English words →

See also

Linguist linguister Linguistic linguistic anthropology linguistic distance linguistic diversity index

Learn this word in context

See linguism used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free