Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The speech of an individual, considered as a linguistic pattern unique among speakers of his or her language or dialect.
Wiktionary
- n. linguistics The language variant used by a specific individual.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Linguistics) the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life
Etymologies
- Blend of idiom and dialect (Wiktionary)
- idio- + (dia)lect. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Experts have tried putting a figure on it, and there have been various groupings going from six to 16, but you can carry on sub-dividing that down until you get to what serious students of this subject refer to as the idiolect.”
“idiolect" -- the vehicle of thought unique to each person, the basic layer.”
“The notion of 'idiolect' therefore, must be as preoccupied with derivation and idiosynchratic patterns of influence as it is with individuality.”
“When I was talking about sentential hopefully, I said that hopefully meaning “in a hopeful manner” had pretty much fallen out of my idiolect.”
“And @idiolect - anxiety can definitely be a clinical problem but as I read it here, I think there is a correlation to weight.”
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
“May 9, 2009 4: 08 PM asseenontv replied to idiolect”
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
“May 9, 2009 3: 40 PM idiolect replied to asseenontv”
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
“May 9, 2009 12: 11 PM dormouse replied to idiolect”
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
“May 9, 2009 1: 10 PM asseenontv replied to idiolect”
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
“In my idiolect, “despite” and “in spite of” are always interchangeable when the intent is to indicate that what follows is in seeming contradiction to what might be expected.”
Despite and in spite of: a grammatical detective story « Motivated Grammar
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘idiolect’.
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phrontistery - i
from phrontistery.info
iamatology, iamb, ianthine, iatraliptic, iatramelia, iatrarchy, iatrochemistry, iatrogenic, iatrology, iatromathematics, iatrophobia, ibidem and 510 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 505 more...
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Basic Linguistics Terms
Words taught in an undergraduate linguistics class
jargon, slang, idiom, dialect, idiolect, in-group slang, linguistics, paradigmatic, syntagmatic, sign, Ferdinand de Saus..., markedness
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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idio-
distinct; private; personal
idiotype, idiopathic, idiolect, idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic, idiot
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Wenderful's Whirled World of Blurred ...
Lexicon I likez... in no order whatsoever.
omnivalence, cerebration, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, rutabaga, septuagenarian, foible, vainglorious, leviathan, remunerative, catastrophize, ancillary and 182 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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litany of lexical likes
words I find interesting or that stuck in my head or that I want to revisit at some point
loblolly, animadvert, misoneism, outrance, chokedamp, appropinquate, noesis, cataphor, flabbergastment, godforsaken, mendacity, sussurus and 113 more...
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Short and Cho Chweet
short, sweet, and fascinating
surusuru, conscion, bourbaki, idiolect, crambo, kalewife, aperçu
Tweets
Looking for tweets for idiolect.
srkrause Maybe it's how we got "W"! Mar 1, 2008
fbharjo ideolect wordie is idiolect to the nth degree Dec 29, 2006