multilingualism

From multilingual +‎ -ism.

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌltiˈlɪŋɡwəlɪzəm/

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multilingualism (usually uncountable, plural multilingualisms)

1. The condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages.
   • 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word‎^[1]:

     This is, perhaps, where writing centers and composition studies are implicated most obviously into the conversation of language ideology, translingualism, and multilingualism.

   • 2021 December 18, Ching Ching Tan, “Spielberg’s West Side Story shows us the value of multilingualism”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Spielberg showed us, a nation historically obsessed with the idea of domination, that respect is a courageous choice and that multilingualism is our true color. It is who we are.

• multilinguality

• monolingualism, unilingualism

• multilingualistic