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Meaning of unidiomaticness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Synonym of unidiomaticity.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“There is throughout the matter of numerous misprints and linguistic unidiomaticness (including the misuse of the English definite article, e.g., pages 69, 70, 91.)”
“Interestingly enough, the author of these lines took the great E. Lane to task for the unidiomaticness of his translation of the Thousand and One Nights (1839).”
“Some of this stylistic unidiomaticness could be fairly easily eliminated. Thus, the first TT sentence 'If a person has a debt that covers his entire wealth, there is no obligation of zakát on him' might be recast more idiomatically as 'No-one whose debts are greater than their wealth is obligated to pay zakát.'”

CEFR level

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

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