unidiomaticness

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English

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Etymology

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From unidiomatic +‎ -ness.

Noun

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unidiomaticness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Synonym of unidiomaticity
    • 1971, Roy Temple House, editor, Books Abroad[1], volume 45, University of Oklahoma, →ISSN:
      There is throughout the matter of numerous misprints and linguistic unidiomaticness (including the misuse of the English definite article, e.g., pages 69, 70, 91.)
    • 2015, Ronak Husni, Daniel L. Newman, Arabic-English-Arabic-English Translation: Issues and Strategies[2], →ISBN:
      Interestingly enough, the author of these lines took the great E. Lane to task for the unidiomaticness of his translation of the Thousand and One Nights (1839).
    • 2016, James Dickins, Sándor Hervey, Ian Higgins, Thinking Arabic Translation: A Course in Translation Method: Arabic to English[3], →ISBN:
      Some of this stylistic unidiomaticness could be fairly easily eliminated. Thus, the first TT sentence 'If a person has a debt that covers his entire wealth, there is no obligation of zakát on him' might be recast more idiomatically as 'No-one whose debts are greater than their wealth is obligated to pay zakát.'