nomenclaturism

English

Etymology

From nomenclature +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nəˈmɛŋklət͡ʃəˌɹɪzəm/

Noun

nomenclaturism (uncountable)

1. The conception of language as a nomenclature.
   • 2011, David Bellos, chapter 8, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

     Nomenclaturism—the notion that words are essentially names—has thus had a long history; surreptitiously it still pervades much of the discourse about the nature of translation between languages, which have words that ‘name’ different things, or that name the same thing in different ways.

Related terms

• nomenclaturist