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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
purism is a noun meaning "scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)". It carries one recorded sense.
scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)
“linguistic purisms”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for purism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.