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PRONUNCIATION OF PROSAICISM

prosaicism  [prəʊˈzeɪɪˌsɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROSAICISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prosaicism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROSAICISM


aestheticism
iːsˈθɛtɪˌsɪzəm
asceticism
əˈsɛtɪˌsɪzəm
Catholicism
kəˈθɒlɪˌsɪzəm
classicism
ˈklæsɪˌsɪzəm
criticism
ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm
cynicism
ˈsɪnɪˌsɪzəm
eclecticism
ɪˈklɛktɪˌsɪzəm
empiricism
ɛmˈpɪrɪˌsɪzəm
eroticism
ɪˈrɒtɪˌsɪzəm
fanaticism
fəˈnætɪˌsɪzəm
historicism
hɪˈstɒrɪˌsɪzəm
lyricism
ˈlɪrɪˌsɪzəm
mosaicism
məʊˈzeɪɪˌsɪzəm
mysticism
ˈmɪstɪˌsɪzəm
narcissism
ˈnɑːsɪˌsɪzəm
neoclassicism
ˌniːəʊˈklæsɪˌsɪzəm
neuroticism
njʊˈrɒtɪˌsɪzəm
romanticism
rəʊˈmæntɪˌsɪzəm
scholasticism
skəˈlæstɪˌsɪzəm
witticism
ˈwɪtɪˌsɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROSAICISM

pros
pros and cons
Pros. Atty.
prosaic
prosaically
prosaicalness
prosaicness
prosaism
prosaist
prosateur
prosauropod
proscenia
proscenium
proscenium arch
prosciutto
proscribe
proscribed
proscriber
proscript
proscription

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROSAICISM

agnosticism
Anglicism
anti-Catholicism
athleticism
didacticism
esotericism
exoticism
hermeticism
higher criticism
homoeroticism
literary criticism
monasticism
new criticism
peripateticism
racism
Roman Catholicism
scepticism
self-criticism
skepticism
stoicism
textual criticism

Synonyms and antonyms of prosaicism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prosaicism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROSAICISM

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The translations of prosaicism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prosaicism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

prosaicism
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prosaísmo
570 millions of speakers

English

prosaicism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीरसता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prosaicism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

prosaicism
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prosaicism
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prosaicalness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prosaïsme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prosaicalness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prosaicism
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prosaicism
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prosaicism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prosaicalness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prosaicism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prosaicalness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Prosaicalness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prosaicalness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prosaicism
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prosaicism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

prosaicism
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prosaicism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

prosaicism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prosaicism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prosaicism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prosaicism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prosaicism

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSAICISM»

The term «prosaicism» is normally little used and occupies the 136.481 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSAICISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prosaicism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prosaicism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prosaicism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSAICISM»

Discover the use of prosaicism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prosaicism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Atlantic Monthly
His ideal itself is endangered; the atmosphere he would inhale is filled with poison; a desolating I 333 moral prosaicism springs up to justify a great social ugliness, and spreads in the air where his young hopes would try their wings; and in the ...
‎1864
2
The Atlantic
Ilis ideal itself is endangered; the atmosphere he would inhale is filled with poison ; a desolating moral prosaicism springs up to justify 8 great social ugliness, and spreads in the air where his young hopes would try their wings; and in the ...
‎1864
3
The literati: some honest opinions about autorial merits and ...
Through this species of prosaicism, Cow- per, with scarcely one of the higher poetical elements, came very near making his age fancy him the equal of Pope ; and to the same cause are attributable three-fourths of that unusual point and force ...
Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1850
4
Essays and Reviews
Through this species of prosaicism, Cowpcr, with scarcely one of the higher poetical elements, came very near making his age fancy him the equal of Pope; and to the same cause are attributable three- fourths of that unusual point and force ...
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson, 1984
5
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
VI Poetry Jovellanos believes that poetry must steer between the vicious extremes of prosaicism and bombast. He sees prosaicism as the flaw of an overly rational poetry. The poet must use imagination more than reason in order to create a ...
6
Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose
It is "prosaicism." Its pleasure lies in demystifying authority. Its satisfaction is the promise of independence. The epistemological, philosophical, and ethical foundation of civil prose are described by Bacon in The Advancement of Learning.
Anne Drury Hall, 2010
7
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Through this species of prosaicism, Cow- per, with scarcely one of the higher poetical elements, came very near making his age fancy him the equal of Pope ; and to the same cause are attributable three-fourths of that unusual point and force ...
Edgar Allan Poe, 1849
8
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
Wordsworth's prosaicism had been treated as anodd experiment; Keats's demolitionof standardEnglish stylehad been widely scorned. Hemans's solutionwasto use standard English(with certain conventional archaisms, such as the ...
James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane, 2008
9
-ologies and -isms
POLITICS, proportionalism . propositus 15. ANCESTORS. prosaic 248. LITERARY STYLE, prosaicism. prosaical 248. LITERARY STYLE, prosaicism. prosaicism 248. LITERARY STYLE. prosaism 248. LITERARY STYLE. prosaicism . prosaist ...
Laurence Urdang, Anne Ryle, Tanya H. Lee, 1986
10
The Twentieth Century
When Clare or Edward Thomas or at his best Robert Bloomfield call over the names they have given to birds and beasts, for instance, and to their activities, there is an admirable prosaicism in their language, eschewing metaphor, which has ...
‎1957

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSAICISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prosaicism is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Nkrumah Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (3)
It also reeks of propagandistic prosaicism and perhaps more than that, the kind of calculating canard only fed to credulous, unchallenged psychologies. «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
2
Blood lust: why period sex shouldn't be taboo in Hollywood or …
The prosaicism of the gesture is the symbolic lynchpin of the whole erotic enterprise; it both the thing that grosses out some readers, and the thing that enchants ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
3
What Is A Hozier? Who Does Milky Chance? We Answer the Chart …
There are a couple of recognizable names—Olly Murs, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, the usual innocuous merchants of shower-grout prosaicism. But what about the ... «Noisey, Jan 15»
4
Lesson from attacks is that extremists can never be sated
... heritage and clueless as to how to stop a tsunami of hatred and violence save through thought-terminating cliches, social pandering and political prosaicism. «Irish Independent, Jan 15»
5
Vice City Turns 10 Years Old Today
... built on the huddled shoulders of Italian-American plumber stereotypes so long to outdo itself on pasta perpetrated prosaicism, but Grand Theft Auto: Vice City ... «IGN, Oct 12»
6
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton: review
... psyche of a sportsperson in training. And, ultimately, it becomes the subtle narrative of an artist who has found beauty in the repetitive prosaicism of daily life. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 12»
7
February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
There can be no doubt that Levine offers readers of American poetry a singular vision, one whose temperate, almost holy prosaicism paradoxically offers a ... «Huffington Post, Feb 12»
8
Unboxing an Apple job offer
Perfectly intuitive.” Okay, we're being a tad breathless here… as a sort of parody of the purplish prosaicism heaped upon most Apple designs, we assure you. «Geek.com, Oct 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Prosaicism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prosaicism>. Apr 2024 ».
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