different between technicality vs jargon

English

Etymology

technical +? -ity

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?kn??kæl?ti/

Noun

technicality (countable and uncountable, plural technicalities)

1. The quality or state of being technical.

   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
2. That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.

3. A minor detail, rule, law, etc., seemingly insignificant to a non-specialist but which has significant consequences in larger matters.

Synonyms

• (quality or state of being technical): technicalness

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???.??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: jar?gon

Etymology 1

From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).

Noun

jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)

1. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
2. (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
3. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

Synonyms

• (language characteristic of a group): argot, cant, intalk
• vernacular

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle jargoned)

1. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.

Etymology 2

Noun

jargon (plural jargons)

1. Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”)

Further reading

• Jargon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jargon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• "jargon" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 174.

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French jargon (“chatter, talk, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?r???n/
• Hyphenation: jar?gon

Noun

jargon n (plural jargons, diminutive jargonnetje n)

1. A jargon, specialised language

Finnish

(index ja)

Etymology

Borrowed from English jargon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?r?on/, [?j?r?o?n]
• Rhymes: -?r?on
• Syllabification: jar?gon

Noun

jargon

1. jargon

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.???/

Etymology 1

From Old French jargon, gargun ("cheeping of birds"), from a root *garg expressing the sound of the throat or referring to it. See gargouille, gargariser, gargoter.
The initial /?/ sound comes from a softening of /g/, as in jambe

Noun

jargon m (plural jargons)

2. jargon, specialised or unintelligible language

Derived terms

• jargonner
• jargonnesque

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Italian giargone. Doublet of zircon.

Noun

jargon m (plural jargons)

2. jargon, a zircon type

Descendants

• ? Catalan: jargó
• ? English: jargoon
• ? German: Jargon
• ? Greek: ??????? (giarkón)
• ? Russian: ??????? (žargón)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: žargon, jargon

• ? Spanish: jergón

References

“jargon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

jargon

1. Alternative form of jargoun.

Old French

Noun

jargon m (oblique plural jargons, nominative singular jargons, nominative plural jargon)

1. talk; chatter; conversation; talking

Descendants

• French: jargon
  • ? Czech: žargon
  • ? Dutch: jargon
  • ? English: jargon
  • ? Esperanto: ?argono
  • ? German: Jargon
  • ? Hungarian: zsargon
  • ? Macedonian: ?????? (žargon)
  • ? Polish: ?argon
  • ? Portuguese: jargão
  • ? Russian: ??????? m (žargón)
  • ? Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ????????

    Latin: žàrg?n

  • ? Spanish: jerga
  • ? Swedish: jargong
  • ? Turkish: jargon

Romanian

Etymology

From French jargon

Noun

jargon n (plural jargoane)

1. jargon, slang

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French jargon.

Noun

jargon (definite accusative jargonu, plural jargonlar)

1. jargon

Synonyms

• argo

Volapük

Noun

jargon

1. gibberish
2. A jargon, specialised language