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holophrasis
[huh-lof-ruh-sis]
noun
plural
holophrasesthe expression of the ideas of a phrase or sentence in one word; polysynthesis.
a language characterized by holophrasis.
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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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