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Idiomatic vs Idiomatology - What's the difference?

idiomatic | idiomatology |

As an adjective idiomatic

is pertaining or conforming to the mode of expression characteristic of a language.

As a noun idiomatology is

the study of idioms and idiomatic language.

idiomatic

English

Alternative forms

* idiomatick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining or conforming to the mode of expression characteristic of a language.
  • Resembling or characteristic of an idiom.
  • Using many idioms.
  • (music) Parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments.

    • Antonyms

    * unidiomatic

    Related terms

    * idiom * idiomatical * idiomatically * idiomaticity

    References

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    idiomatology

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The study of idioms and idiomatic language
  • *{{quote-journal, 1919, H.A. Rose, Comparative "Idiomatology", Man, page=133 citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • *{{quote-book, 1952, Claire Eileen Craddock, Style theories as found in stylistic studies of Romance scholars, 1900-1950, page=32 citation
    • , passage=His aim is language characterization as to its system, a kind of idiomatology .}}
  • *{{quote-journal, 1978, date=June 9, George W. Grace, The Langue, Ethnolinguistic Notes, issue=2 citation
    • , passage=If we were to identify the langue strictly with the object of linguistic description then one aspect of the problem of defining the langue would involve drawing the line between that aspect of the speakers’ knowledge of X which is relevant to a linguistic description of X and those aspects (the idiomatology ) which are not.}}