dictionarization
nounEtymology From dictionary + -ization.
1
The act of adding (something) to a dictionary.
- The goal of Wiktionary is to achieve the dictionarization of every language.
- The unprecedented standardization (and dictionarization) of language has allowed the logologist to view words as combinations and permutations of graphemic units. Wordplay has taken on the cold precision and theorization of modern mathematics.1977 May, Paul Remley, “Gamenung Mid Wordum”, in Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, volume 10, number 2, Morristown, N.J.: A. Ross Eckler Jr., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67:
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