academese

American  

[ak-uh-duh-meez, -mees, uh-kad-uh-] / ˌæk ə dəˈmiz, -ˈmis, əˌkæd ə- /

noun

1. pedantic, pretentious, and often confusing academic jargon.

   a presumably scholarly article written in incomprehensible academese.

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Etymology

Origin of academese

academ(ic) + -ese

Example Sentences

There are the peddlers of “civil disagreement” — I like to think of them as trolls in tweed blazers, who cloak themselves in academese and are “just trying to have a measured conversation.”

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2019

The second act, which shifts between a 2003 symposium, steeped in academese, and a 1973 talk show, steeped in gin, is more like a screwball tragedy.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2019

Sometimes pretentious academese darkens the commentary too, though a few mini-essays, such as Mandy Kahn’s on “Ives,” are almost as good as the poems they illuminate.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2019

Sure, the primary vilification of academese comes courtesy of good old anti-intellectualism, and its practitioners aren’t exactly jumping to read an unapologetically intellectual defense such as this.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2017

The main difference between good writing and turgid mush — academese, corporatese, and so on — is that good writing is a window onto the world.

From Nature • Sep. 30, 2014