Jargon vs Medicalese - What's the difference?
jargon | medicalese |
(uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
(countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
* 2014 , Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today
(uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
* Macaulay
To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
* Longfellow
(informal) The jargon used by medical professionals.
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, passage=Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese . }}
As nouns the difference between jargon and medicalese
is that jargon is a technical terminology unique to a particular subject while medicalese is the jargon used by medical professionals.As a verb jargon
is to utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.jargon
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
- In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.
- A barbarous jargon .
Synonyms
* (language characteristic of a group) argot, cant, intalk * vernacularDerived terms
* jargonaut * jargoneer * jargonist * jargonistic * jargonization * jargonizeVerb
(en verb)- The noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.
Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) giargone, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* jargoonExternal links
* (projectlink) * ----medicalese
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