holophrastic

(-frastik)

adjective

expressing an entire sentence or phrase in one word

Origin: < holo- + Gr phrastikos, suited for expressing < phrazein, to speak

See holophrastic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
  1. Polysynthetic.
  2. Of or relating to the stage of child language development characterized by the use of single-word utterances.

Origin:

Origin: holo-

Origin: + Greek phrastikos, expressive (from -phrastos, speakable, thought of, from phrazein, to show; see gwhren- in Indo-European roots)

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