idiolect
nounUK /ˈɪd.i.əʊ̯.lɛkt/ · US /ˈɪd.i.ə.lɛkt/
Etymology From idio- + -lect.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The language variant used by a specific individual.
- She perfected the fictional idiolect, fashioning habits of speaking for even minor characters that rendered them utterly singular.2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 3:
- Derived terms
- idiolectal, idiolectic, idiolectical
- Related terms
- idioculture