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- noun The
construction ofwords from simpler units.
Etymologies
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From word + building. Compare German Wortbildung ("word formation, morphology").
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Examples
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and the "society" isn't portrayed in enormous, loving, wordbuilding detail with lots of invented words, etc . . .
January 2010 2010
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and the "society" isn't portrayed in enormous, loving, wordbuilding detail with lots of invented words, etc . . .
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and the "society" isn't portrayed in enormous, loving, wordbuilding detail with lots of invented words, etc . . .
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Sometimes, if a book has left enticing hints and clues about a piece of wordbuilding or history or whatever throughout the book, I’ll be so curious about the ‘whole story’ that I’ll eat up an infodump and ask for more.
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