wordshaping
nounEtymology From word + shaping. Compare Dutch woordschepping, German Wortschöpfung (“word creation”), Swedish ordskapande.
1
The art or practice of shaping, forming, or creating words.
- Another fault exists in our Hebrew books of instruction: though they greedily compare roots or what are supposed to be roots, they exclude the general principles of wordshaping, which as long as man has a mouth will be found prevailing […]1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
- Marie von Sievers had her place in the art of word-shaping; to dramatic representation she had the most beautiful relationship.2003, Rudolf Steiner, Story of My Life:
2
The art of using words to form representations or images.
- Such word-shaping is useful to all wayfinders but particularly so to wayfinders with one or another form of sight-impairment. Word-shaping is particularly important in the context of wayfinding because of most sign-panels […]2000, Philip G. Barker, Masoud Yazdani, Iconic communication:
- Related terms
- wordbuilding, wordshape