Definition of "polysyllabicity" []

• The state or characteristic of being polysyllabic. (noun)

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• "Though a translation, it puts English polysyllabicity to shame."
• "Norman R. Shapiro Wesleyan University In a periodical the very rubrics of which appear in Latin, it might be expected that admirers of Latinate polysyllabicity would from time to time descend upon unfortunate vocables of humble Anglo-Saxon origin and attempt to do them violence, but Axel Homos goes too farl He writes that "... as a rule, English words of Latin ancestry [sic] bear a close resemblance to their equivalents in R.mance languages.""