Word Meanings - PURISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly

Additional info about word: PURISM

Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter. Craik.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURISM)

• Euphuism
• Affectation
• pedantry
• purism
• highflying
• finicality
• factitiousness

Related words: (words related to PURISM)

• PURISM
  Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• AFFECTATION
  1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty
• HIGHFLYING
  Extravagant in opinions or ambition. "Highflying, arbitrary kings." Dryden.
• PEDANTRY
  The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.
• EUPHUISM
  An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
• FINICALITY
  The quality of being finical; finicalness.
• INAFFECTATION
  Freedom from affectation; naturalness.