purism

Noun

Meaning

Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

literalism inflation taste discrimination rhetoric formalism delicacy elegance euphemism pretense pretension pomposity dogmatism pedantry bombast
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Antonyms

ease flexibility mistake realism oversight honesty
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Hypernyms

insistence insisting

Related terms

purist puristic

Anagrams

primus

Examples

linguistic purisms Source: Internet

No amount of organic purism will prevent that inevitability. Source: Internet

There are several non-nutritive alternatives that aren’t sucralose and aren’t aspartame and I wish people would slow down with the purism just long enough to realize that more options are needed. Source: Internet

This is a good example of linguistic purism in this ancient language. Source: Internet

Linguistic purism further Barnes had a strong interest in language; he was fluent in Greek, Latin and several modern European languages. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Purinton purinyl puriri purist purist Greek puristic