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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hypothesis holding that the structure of a language affects the perceptions of reality of its speakers and thus influences their thought patterns and worldviews.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf.]
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