different between polysyllabism vs polysyllabicity

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polysyllabism (usually uncountable, plural polysyllabisms)

(linguistics) The state or characteristic of having or using words containing multiple syllables, sometimes as a stage in the development of language.
- 1936, Martin Joos, "Book Review: The Psycho-Biology of Language by George K. Zipf," Language, vol. 12, no. 3 (July/Sep), p. 202,
  Chinese polysyllabism is a sort of synthesis, or aggregation, or 'addition' of morphemes and their meanings.
Polysyllabicism.
- 1867, William Dwight Whitney, Language and the Study of Language, Scribner, New York, p. 348,
  Cumbrous compounds are formed as the names of objects and a character of tedious and time-wasting polysyllabism is given to the language.

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

polysyllabicity (uncountable)

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.

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

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