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multilingualism

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Etymology

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    From multilingual + -ism.

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    Noun

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    multilingualism (usually uncountable, plural multilingualisms)

    1. The condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages.
      Synonyms: multilinguality, polylingualism
      Coordinate terms: monolingualism, unilingualism
      • 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word[1]:
        This is, perhaps, where writing centers and composition studies are implicated most obviously into the conversation of language ideology, translingualism, and multilingualism.
      • 2021 December 18, Ching Ching Tan, “Spielberg’s West Side Story shows us the value of multilingualism”, in CNN[2]:
        Spielberg showed us, a nation historically obsessed with the idea of domination, that respect is a courageous choice and that multilingualism is our true color. It is who we are.

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