monosyllabism

[ mon-uh-sil-uh-biz-uhm ]

noun

1. monosyllabic character.
2. the use of monosyllables.

Word History and Origins

Origin of monosyllabism¹

1795–1805; < Late Latin monosyllab ( on ) monosyllable + -ism

Example Sentences

You can check in in a way that foregrounds your concern about their unusual monosyllabism, because you don’t yet know if there’s something particularly serious underlying this recent absence.

From Slate

Philologists frequently blame their own ignorance and impotence, if they do not always succeed in reducing plurisyllabism to monosyllabism, and they trust in the future.

From Project Gutenberg