Usually means: Obscure, pretentious words used unnecessarily.
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  1. inkhornism: Wordnik
  2. inkhornism: Wiktionary
  3. Inkhornism: Dictionary.com
  4. Inkhornism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. inkhornism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Inkhornism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. inkhornism: FreeDictionary.org
  8. inkhornism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  9. Inkhornism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Pedantry; a preference for inkhorn terms.
▸ noun:  (countable) An inkhorn term.

Similar:
pedanticness, pedanticism, typophilia, pedantics, paedantry, hipsterism, pedancy, Pecksniffism, pedantism, phedinkus, more...

Opposite:
plain language, plain style, plain English

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Similar:
pedanticness, pedanticism, typophilia, pedantics, paedantry, hipsterism, pedancy, Pecksniffism, pedantism, phedinkus, more...

Opposite:
plain language, plain style, plain English



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