multilingualness

English

Etymology

From multilingual +‎ -ness.

Noun

multilingualness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being multilingual.

   Synonyms: multilingualism, polylingualism

   • 1993, LEIF: Life and Education in Finland‎, Society for Culture and Education, page 49:

     In the beginning of his book he describes the multilingualness of his home in an interesting way. The family spoke German and Russian at home, he learnt Swedish at school and Finnish at work.

   • 2010 January 18, Carol Plum-Ucci, Streams of Babel‎, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 189:

     He laughed easily, so blasé about his French wife and multilingualness.

   • 2014, Elizabeth C. Zsig, One Tlale Boyer, Ruth Kramer, Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 172:

     The persistent metaphorization or seeming cacophony conflated with African languages on the silver screen only serves to further iterate commonsensical notions of African multilingualness as valueless—as lacking in linguistic capital.

Translations

multilingualism — see multilingualism