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Definition: ATTICISM |
ATTICISMNoun1. The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression. 2. A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians. |
Etymology: Atticism \At"ti*cism\, noun. [from Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Elegance | Noun: elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness; Adjective: concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism, classicalism, classicism. |
Wit | Noun: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "ATTICISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stil i bukur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الخاصية الأتيكية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сбит израз, привързаност към атина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | attikai nyelvhasználat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atticismay aticismo. (various references) aticism. (various references) изящество выражения. (various references) aticizam, u stilu stare grčke. (various references) atina dil özelliği, atika üslubu, güzel konuşma (a glib tongue, rhetoric). (various references) phong cách A-ten từ ngữ đặc A-ten, ngôn ngữ tao nhã của A-ten sự sùng A-ten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ATTICISM": atticisms. (additional references) | |
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"ATTICISM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anthticus, Atticum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ATTICISM" (pronounced 'At"ti*cism'): Academicism, AEstheticism, Agnosticism, Anatocism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arsenicism, Asceticism, Asiaticism, Astaticism, Athleticism, Atomicism, Autoecism, Biblicism, Briticism, Catholicism, Celticism, Citicism, Civicism, Classicism, Creticism, Criticism, Cynicism, Ecclesiasticism, Eclecticism, Gallicism, Gnosticism, laconicism, lambdacism, Lexiphanicism, lyricism, Metacism, Metempiricism, monasticism, Monoecism, Mutacism, Mysticism, Mytacism, Neocriticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Organicism, ostracism, Peripateticism, Phallicism, Physicism, Polysyllabicism, Prosaicism, Rhotacism, romanticism, Rotacism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mastitic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-m-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: attics, mastic, misact, static. | |
-3 letters: amici, attic, maist, matts, micas, mitis, mitts, scatt, tacit, tacts, tamis, titis. | |
-4 letters: acts, aims, aits, amis, asci, cams, cast, cats, cist, macs, mast, mats, matt, mica, mist, mitt, sati, scam, scat, sima, smit, stat, tact, tams, tats, tics, titi, tits. | |
-5 letters: act, aim, ais, ait, ami, att, cam. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-m-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: atomistic, atticisms, stigmatic. | |
+2 letters: astigmatic, stigmatics. | |
+3 letters: antiemetics, arithmetics, astigmatics, athleticism, immittances, martensitic, masticating, mastication, mentalistic, miscitation, mutualistic, romanticist, semanticist, stalagmitic. | |
+4 letters: aestheticism, anastigmatic, antimitotics, athleticisms, mastications, mercantilist, meristematic, metafictions, metrications, militaristic, miscitations, pragmaticist, pragmatistic, romanticists, semanticists, stichomythia. | |
+5 letters: actinometries, aestheticisms, anthelmintics, anticommunist, antimechanist, antiromantics, antisymmetric, aromaticities, atomistically, autoeroticism, bimetallistic, biosystematic, climatologist, comparativist, customization, domesticating, domestication, immanentistic, magistratical, mariculturist, masticatories, materialistic, mercantilists, microhabitats, miniaturistic, misarticulate, mystification, pragmaticists, protactiniums, semiautomatic, stichomythias, stigmatically, stromatolitic, theatricalism, trichromatism. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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