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holophrasis

[ huh-lof-ruh-sis ]

noun

plural holophrases [h, uh, -, lof, -r, uh, -seez].
  1. the expression of the ideas of a phrase or sentence in one word; polysynthesis:

    a language characterized by holophrasis.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of holophrasis1

1865–70; holo- + Greek phrásis; phrase
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Example Sentences

Both the above characteristics, I mean Polysynthesis and Incorporation, are unconscious efforts to carry out a certain theory of speech which has aptly enough been termed holophrasis, or the putting the whole of a phrase into a single word.

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