🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

tecnicismo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /tek.niˈsis.mo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Technicism/ˈtɛk.nɪˌsɪz.əm/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #28450 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El uso excesivo de tecnicismos dificulta la comunicación con el público general."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An excessive adherence to or reliance on technological approaches, methods, or terminology.

    "The critique of modern education often focuses on its growing technicism at the expense of humanistic inquiry."
  2. 2

    A technical term, expression, or idiom specific to a particular art, science, or craft.

    "The manual was difficult for a layperson to read because it was filled with obscure technicisms."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek word 'technē' meaning art, skill, or craft, combined with the English suffix '-ism'. It emerged in the mid-20th century during the rapid rise of industrialization and technological dominance to describe an excessive reliance or blind faith in technology to solve human and social problems.

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