verbalism

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ver·bal·ism

(vûr′bə-lĭz′əm)

a. An expression in words; a word or phrase.

b. The manner in which something is phrased; wording.

2. A wordy phrase or sentence that has little meaning.

3. Abundant use of words without conveying much meaning.

verbalism

(ˈvɜːbəˌlɪzəm)

1. a verbal expression; phrase or word

2. an exaggerated emphasis on the importance of words by the uncritical acceptance of assertions in place of explanations, the use of rhetorical style, etc

3. a statement lacking real content, esp a cliché

ver•bal•ism

(ˈvɜr bəˌlɪz əm)

n.

1. a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.

2. a phrase or sentence having little or no meaning.

3. a use of words considered as obscuring ideas or facts; verbiage.

[1780–90]

verbalism

1. a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
2. the way in which something is worded.
3. a phrase or sentence devoid or almost devoid of meaning.
4. a use of words regarded as obscuring ideas or reality; verbiage.

verbalism

noun

Choice of words and the way in which they are used:

diction, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, wordage, wording.

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I will not weary you with the verbalism, since you will be able to check it; the substance of my proclamation is this: I announce first that I have captured the English millionaire, the colossus of finance, Mr Samuel Harrogate.

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Freire referred to the lack of dialogical practice as verbalism (also see DiAngelo & Sensoy, 2010), whereby the expectation that "all children can learn" becomes empty chatter that has little impact on the role of teachers' expectations and instructional practices associated with racial stratification and the reproduction of power.

Social justice teaching through the sympathetic touch of caring and high expectations for students of color

Failing this, these relations would remain in the realm of pure abstraction--that is to say, in the realm of representations and hence of ideology: the realm of verbalism, verbiage and empty words.

Health information systems development: producing a new agora in Zimbabwe

Emphatically defending that adult authority changes nothing as to the child's egocentric mentality, Piaget stresses the deficiencies of traditional school: its verbalism and authoritarianism.

Revisiting the foundations of constructivism: the ethical and theological groundwork of Piaget's early psychopedagogical thought/Revisitar los fundamentos del constructivismo: las bases eticas y religiosas del pensamiento psicopedagogico del joven Piaget/Revisiter les fondements du constructivisme: les soubassements ethiques et theologiques de la pensee psychopedagogique du jeune Piaget

This idea of female silence links to the backlash against feminist verbalism which is adequately summed up in Bruno Bettelheim's chauvinistic assumption that "While many fairy tales stress great deeds the heroes must perform to become themselves, Sleeping Beauty emphasizes the long, quiet concentration on oneself that is also needed [.

A rude awakening: Sleeping Beauty as a metaphor for the slumber of post-feminism

Speaking on Sigma TV on Sunday night, Theocharous had her own name-calling bout, with "nonsense, verbalism and irresponsibility" being just some of the epithets she used to describe Venizelos' tirade.

DISY MEP demands removal of Greek Foreign Minister

The first serious criticism of the concept of verbalism and Cutsforth's negative value judgment came from Dokecki (1966).

Investigating meaning construal in the language of the blind: a cognitive linguistic perspective/Istrazivanje konstruiranja znacenja u jeziku slijepih: kognitivnolingvisticka perspektiva

What is lacking is a medium between both that I would like to call Verbalism.

'Art', habitus, and style in Herder, Humboldt, Hamann, and Vossler: hermeneutics and linguistics

This is evidenced in the verbalism given by the participants after religious intervention where the participants along with listening to Surat Ar-Rahman at a specific time were also required to recite this specific verse no: 13 from Surat Ar-Rahman.

Combination of Psychological and Religious Intervention in Reducing Psychological Distress among University Students

Cut off from practice, theory becomes abstraction or "simple verbalism.

Critical pedagogy and praxis with Native American youth: cultivating change through participatory action research

This book sets out to introduce key ideas and concepts, examining meaning not in an Aristotelian sense (or in the many theories of meaning following from Aristotle) couched in abstract verbalism and referents.

Korzybski, Alfred. Selections from Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

At its worst, it is mere verbalism, an indulge [sic] in witticism more for the sake of the sound than the sense, or for the fun of twisting phrases or juggling with words and syllables and antitheses.

Saki as Dauphin of the Wildean Witticism

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Noun	1.	verbalism - the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions; "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas"; "the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours" verbal expression, expression communicating, communication - the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" articulation, voice - expressing in coherent verbal form; "the articulation of my feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings" cold turkey - a blunt expression of views; "I told him cold turkey" felicitation, congratulation - (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another; "I sent them my sincere congratulations on their marriage"
	2.	verbalism - overabundance of words verbiage verboseness, verbosity - an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words