Words and phrases that have a meaning related to archaisms:  (122 results)
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etymologies, nabokovian, circumlocutions, historicism, coinages, demotic, fustiness, loanwords, priggishness, lexis, tautologies, academicism, journalese, infelicities, neologisms, deracination, commonplaces, dandyism, apercus, orotund, unworldliness, ritualism, scholasticism, daintiness, crudities, unintelligibility, pompousness, rhapsodies, diphthongs, grandiloquence, epigrams, doubleness, dilettantism, poeticism, exegeses, prolixity, hieratic, attitudinizing, gallimaufry, metafiction, stylisation, plainness, jamesian, garrulousness, catullus, didacticism, literalism, wordiness, bardic, split infinitive, genitive, lexicography, elide, pedantry, gimcrack, wishfulness, maupassant, orientalism, bohemianism, poesy, locution, belles lettres, idioms, idiosyncrasy, inelegance, solecism, acerbity, courtliness, mozartian, nominalism, onanism, prosody, metaphysic, hybridity, affectations, rusticity, quiddity, orthography, everydayness, scansion, superciliousness, pentameter, cantankerousness, allusiveness, barbarisms, cognates, flummery, pithiness, cavafy, grubbiness, clownishness, prose, singspiel, diminutives, foreignness, indirectness, inoffensiveness, imposture, popery, explications, cogitations, folk etymology, archaism, anachronisms, obscurities, embellishments, similes, analogies, glosses, idiosyncrasies, oddities, omissions, eccentricities, epitaphs, exaggerations, exceptions, imitations, mannerism, parodies, awkwardness, blemishes, dramatizations
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— Adjectives for archaisms: many, such, few, certain, deliberate, linguistic, occasional, poetic, conscious, numerous, false, more...

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