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English
Etymology
Indian + -ism
Noun
Indianism (countable and uncountable, plural Indianisms)
- A word or phrase peculiar to a language spoken in India, such as Indian English.
- Hyponym: babuism
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305:What this means is that academic interest in Indian English lexis has been largely confined to "Indianisms".
- (South America) The idealized portrayal of indigenous people as national heroes.
Coordinate terms
- (dialectisms) dialectism; Americanism (Yankeeism, Yankism), Australianism, Britishism (anglicism, Briticism), Canadianism, Indianism, Irishism, Scotticism, southernism, New Zealandism
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