Idiomatology

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of idioms and idiomatic language uncountable

    "Mr. Alan Gardiner's Home Thoughts on Language emboldens one to ask whether there is not room for a science of Idiomatology* as a sister to Semantics."

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"Mr. Alan Gardiner's Home Thoughts on Language emboldens one to ask whether there is not room for a science of Idiomatology* as a sister to Semantics."

Etymology

From idiomatic + -ology. Contemporary use is traced to George W. Grace in the unpublished 1977 paper "Language: An Ethnolinguistic Essay". However, the term had been coined at least twice previously in the same sense.

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