different between polysyllabicity vs taxonomy

English

Noun

polysyllabicity (uncountable)

1. The state or characteristic of being polysyllabic.
   • 1943, John de Francis, "The Alphabetization of Chinese," Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 63, no. 4 (Oct/Dec), p. 235,

     The drift of the Chinese language toward greater polysyllabicity is seen even more clearly in the fact that not more than 15 percent of the Chinese equivalents of foreign technical terms consist of only one syllable.

   • 2005, Jay Newhard, "Grelling's Paradox," Philosophical Studies, Springer, vol. 126, no. 1, p. 2,

     "Polysyllabicity" and "utterableness" each has the word-property it designates.

Related terms

• polysyllable
• polysyllabicism
• polysyllabism

References

• “polysyllabicity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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