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usualism

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English

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Etymology

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From usual +‎ -ism.

Noun

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usualism (plural usualisms)

  1. Something that is usual, or employed in the usual way; a norm.
    • 1976, Harvey Stallard, Occlusion, page 115:
      The average between the stations of ages becomes a normal usualism that they can depend upon in insuring.
    • 2020, Alexander Barkovich, Informational Linguistics: The New Communicational Reality, page 125:
      In this communicational mode, language units can be differentiated as usualisms and contextualisms (Fig. 4-6).