Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tendency to an excessive use of adverbs.
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Adjectivism, adverbism, and nounism, or marked disposition to multiply one or more of the above classes of words, and in the above order, also occur near the early teens.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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