dialecticism

English

Etymology 1

From dialectic +‎ -ism.

Noun

dialecticism (countable and uncountable, plural dialecticisms)

1. The quality of being dialectic.
   • 1861 July, “Gioberti's Philosophy of Revelation”, in Brownson's Quarterly Review‎, volume 3, page 305:

     Dialecticism is expressed by the Catholic formula: Union not separation of natures, the unity of person against Nestorius; distinction not confusion of natures against Eutychius and the Monothelites.

   • 2011, Richard Sorrentino, Handbook of Motivation and Cognition Across Cultures‎, page 520:

     We argue there are two major ways in which dialecticism influences emotional complexity in East Asian cultures.

Etymology 2

From dialect +‎ -icism.

Noun

dialecticism (plural dialecticisms)

1. (linguistics) A dialectal word or phrase (especially if borrowed into another dialect or into 'standard' language).

   Synonym: dialectism

   • 1982, Nina Kolesnikoff, Bruno Jasieński: His Evolution from Futurism to Socialist Realism‎, page 69:

     Numerous dialecticisms introduced into the poem reflect the phonetic, morphological, and syntactic differences between dialect and standard language.

   • 2013, M. B. Behbudi, Colin Turner, The Quran: A New Interpretation: In English with Arabic Text, Routledge, →ISBN:

     extent of replicating faithfully such features as archaisms, dialecticisms, different language registers and levels of formality. Most translations, of course, are amalgams of these different translational types, ...

   • 2017, Herman Ermolaev, Mikhail Sholokhov and His Art, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 147:

     A few dialecticisms used by both the author and the characters were replaced by the 1962 editors of Collected Works in the stories that were not included in the 1956 editions. On balance, the early stories have retained proportionately more original dialecticisms [...]. In my very conservative estimate, well over two hundred corrections affecting dialectal words were made.

Translations

dialectal word

Albanian: dialektizëm (sq) m Chinese: 方言詞 / 方言词 (zh) Czech: dialektismus (cs) m German: Dialektismus (de) m Polish: dialektyzm (pl) m, gwaryzm m Slovak: dialektizmus m

Further reading

• “dialecticism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dialecticism”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “dialecticism, dialectism”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.