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Vinony

idiomatology

noun

  1. a collection of idioms
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From idiomatic + -ology. Contemporary use is traced to George W. Grace in the unpublished 1977 paper "Language: An Ethnolinguistic Essay". However, the term had been coined at least twice previously in the same sense.

  1. The study of idioms and idiomatic language

    “Mr. Alan Gardiner's Home Thoughts on Language emboldens one to ask whether there is not room for a science of Idiomatology* as a sister to Semantics.”

    “His aim is language characterization as to its system, a kind of idiomatology.”