prescriptivism
About 0.03 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.
Similar words
prescriptivist grammar neo-purism purism hypercorrectism hypercorrection descriptionist metapragmatics semantic-pragmatic disorder predicativist
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