purism

From French purisme. By surface analysis, pur(e) +‎ -ism.

purism (countable and uncountable, plural purisms)

1. An insistence on pure or unmixed forms.
   1. (linguistics) The desire to use words and forms derived from what is considered the native element in a given language instead of elements considered borrowed or foreign.
2. (uncountable) An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things.
3. (countable) An example of purist language etc.

• neo-purism
• ultrapurism

• purist
• puristic

• “purism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “purism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Primus, primus

Borrowed from French purisme. By surface analysis, pur +‎ -ism.

purism n (uncountable)

1. purism