Definitions
Etymologies
- From ipse dixit + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And he hasn’t engaged in ipsedixitism; he makes two arguments against the proscription against splitting infinitives.”
National Grammar Day 2009: Ten Common Grammar Myths, Debunked « Motivated Grammar
“By the way, I never had a problem with ipsedixitism.”
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
“So let me modify my original statement: Rather than saying your post was nothing more than reheated ipsedixitism, I should say that there was a lot of reheated ipsedixitism in it.”
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
“I get the impression you are somewhat angered, especially when you start off with, “Christopher, with all due respect, your post is basically nothing more than reheated ipsedixitism.””
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
“Christopher, with all due respect, your post is basically nothing more than reheated ipsedixitism.”
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
“Now, regarding my accusation of ipsedixitism on your part: I concede that you did bring up dictionaries regarding your claim that using “they” as a singular is illogical and your claim that “everybody” is singular.”
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
“No, the thing that gave me the impression you might harbor some heightened level of frustration or anger was the words before ipsedixitism: “nothing more than reheated …” “Nothing more than” certainly suggests an attempt to dismiss or minimize my thoughts, as does “reheated.””
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
“I can see how a sentence like “your post is basically nothing more than reheated ipsedixitism” might give that impression, but in all honesty one of the main reasons I said that is that “ipsedixitism” is a fun word.”
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
“Defect of substantial reasons must be compensated somehow; and no compensation for it is more obvious, or is oftener called into play, than an air of impatient contempt towards those who disrelish ipsedixitism.”
“April 16, 2009 in books, disagreements, grammar, ipsedixitism, links | Tags: geoff pullum, strunk and white, elements of style, chronicle of higher education | 2 comments”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ipsedixitism’.
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Things that Can (and Should) be set O...
The words piano and sister may not appear on this list. It all started on flaming piano.
bottled water, dudley moore, wads of unpaid bills, casu marzu factories, pogroms, frozen pizzas, breakable glass f..., cacophonists, intransigents, belligerent smurfs, police academy re..., unidentified samp... and 103 more...
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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Silly-sounding words
Serious words that sound silly when you say them
philosophunculist, argy-bargy, Labradoodle, shittah, shittim, floccinaucinihili..., succedaneum, honorificabilitud..., fag-ma-fuff, buffarilla, yazzihamper, mammothrept and 140 more...
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Not 250 Spelling Words Again
Yet more spelling words for intermediate to advanced spellers.
kyoodle, heimin, feis, menarche, cordwainer, gherao, zythum, accidie, anastomosis, boustrophedon, oleum, penicillin and 238 more...
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Ayatollah's list
Trinkets of lexical goodness.
floccinaucinihili..., quomodocunquize, curmudgeon, illaqueate, ipsissimosity, heterochthonous, hakenkreuz, forisfamiliate, appropinquate, apodyopsis, baryphony, cachinnate and 146 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
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May 2010 (Wedding Month!!)
Just the words I meet this month, starting with cecum.
cecum, compersion, antilogy, fantods, dord, flam, ipsedixitism, quartine, glycation, neoteny, desiccation, hypovolemia and 17 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Occult / Religious
evangelism, exorcism, fideism, Gnosticism, Hasidism, Hebraism, henotheism, hylotheism, idolism, indifferentism, infralapsarianism, ipsedixitism and 107 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Politrix
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
vexillology, blowback, impunity, extraterritoriality, plenipotentiary, filibuster, pundit, jingoistic, gerrymander, swiftboat, espionage, ipsedixitism and 151 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Words I like
pulchritude, meretricious, copious, moxie, floccinaucinihili..., good, bad, juxtapose, threnody, libido, limerence, magnanimous and 33 more...
Tweets
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oroboros Where a premise is assumed to be true merely by the saying of it. See also, beg the question. Dec 21, 2006