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Definition: PURISM |
PURISMNoun1. Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. |
Etymology: Purism \Pur"ism\, noun. [Compare to the French expression purisme.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology; (altiloquence). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PURISM |
| English words defined with "PURISM": Puristical. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PURISM" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (purism), Swedish (purism). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PURISM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PURISM" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
purism | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PURISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الصفائية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пуризъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puhdaskielisyys (correct language). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | purisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Purismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθαρολογία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ט"ר ות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyelvvédelem, nyelvtisztítás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | purismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urismpay purismo. (various references) purism. (various references) пуризм. (various references) purismo (fascism). (various references) purism. (various references) ลัทธิบริสุทธิ์, ความพิถีพิถันใน าษา. (various references) dilde sadelik, arı dil kullanma. (various references) пуризм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PURISM": purisms. (additional references) | |
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"PURISM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aurism, aurlism, parsim, Periasamy, Pericom, pirim, plurism, plurium, poris, pouris, pourris, prisma, prisme, prisn, pudim, pugism, puriam, puric, puris, purisme, Purkis, purrim. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PURISM" (pronounced 'Pur"ism'): Absenteeism, Anticivism, Antitheism, Aramaism, Bahaism, Bardism, Boodhism, Bossism, Boyism, Buffoonism, Burkism, Cavalierism, Chartism, Chemism, Churchism, Civism, Dashism, Deism, Frenchism, Geusdism, Jainism, Lamarckism, Lyrism, Malebranchism, Mandarinism, Mutism, Neo-Lamarckism, Occultism, Old-maidism, Ophism, Opportunism, Owlism, Panslavism, Panzoism, Pasteurism, Pharisaism, Priestism, Quackism, Rantism, Red-tapism, Routinism, Saintism, Scaphism, Sclavism, Scribism, Sectism, Selfism, Sensism, Slavism, sophism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: primus. | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: prims, prism, puris, rumps, sirup. | |
-2 letters: imps, mirs, prim, puri, purs, rims, rips, rump, rums, simp, spur, sump, umps. | |
-3 letters: imp, ism, mir, mis, mus, pis, piu, psi, pur, pus, rim, rip, rum, sim, sip, sir, sri, sum, sup, ump, ups. | |
-4 letters: is, mi, mu, pi, si, um, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: purisms, spumier, umpires. | |
+2 letters: frumpish, grumpish, imporous, imputers, marsupia, murphies, premiums, primulas, primuses, protiums, pumicers, stumpier, triumphs. | |
+3 letters: emporiums, epicurism, europiums, frumpiest, grumphies, grumpiest, imperious, imperiums, imposture, impugners, marsupial, marsupium, pauperism, plumerias, pluralism, presidium, presuming, presummit, puerilism, rumpliest, semigroup, septarium, spirillum, superfirm, supermind, supermini, superpimp, umpirages. | |
+4 letters: crumpliest, dimorphous, dysprosium, epicurisms, grumpiness, impervious, importunes, impostures, impressure, impromptus, impureness, impurities, manuscript, marsupials, mudskipper, multisport, outpromise, pauperisms, perimysium, periosteum, plumberies, pluralisms, practicums, praesidium, presidiums, proscenium, prostomium, psalterium, pterygiums, puerilisms, puritanism, puromycins, resumption, semigroups, spermatium, sporangium, subprimate, superfirms, supermicro, superminds, superminis, superpimps, suppertime, trapeziums, trumperies, uropygiums. | |
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