verbalism

/vur-buh-liz-uhm/US // ˈvɜr bəˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈvɜːbəˌlɪzəm) //

言语主义,言语学,语言主义,言语症

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- : the way in which something is worded; choice of words; phrasing.
- : a phrase or sentence having little or no meaning.
- : a use of words considered as predominating over or obscuring ideas or reality; verbiage.

nounwording

Synonyms

Bad verbalism is rhetoric, or the use of clich unconsciously, or a mere playing with phrases.
Here we are, then, in the realm of pure verbalism—in the ideal region of signs.
We may surround the subject with a vague and attractive idealistic verbalism, but we come back to this as a starting point.
This 'science,' therefore, finally reduces to mere verbalism, distracted by inconsistent relapses into 'psychology.'
But there is good verbalism, distinct from lyricism or imagism, and in this Laforgue is a master.

/vur-buh-liz-uhm/US // ˈvɜr bəˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈvɜːbəˌlɪzəm) //

言语主义,言语学,语言主义,言语症

n.名词 noun

1
- : a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- : the way in which something is worded; choice of words; phrasing.
- : a phrase or sentence having little or no meaning.
- : a use of words considered as predominating over or obscuring ideas or reality; verbiage.

nounwording

Synonyms

Bad verbalism is rhetoric, or the use of clich unconsciously, or a mere playing with phrases.
Here we are, then, in the realm of pure verbalism—in the ideal region of signs.
We may surround the subject with a vague and attractive idealistic verbalism, but we come back to this as a starting point.
This 'science,' therefore, finally reduces to mere verbalism, distracted by inconsistent relapses into 'psychology.'
But there is good verbalism, distinct from lyricism or imagism, and in this Laforgue is a master.