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Meaning of polysyllabicity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The state or characteristic of being polysyllabic.

uncountable

Examples

“1943, John de Francis, "The Alphabetization of Chinese," Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 63, no. 4 (Oct/Dec), p. 235, The drift of the Chinese language toward greater polysyllabicity is seen even more clearly in the fact that not more than 15 percent of the Chinese equivalents of foreign technical terms consist of only one syllable.”
“"Polysyllabicity" and "utterableness" each has the word-property it designates.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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