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Back-formation   Listen
noun
back-formation  n.  (Linguistics)
1.
A word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it, such as emote from emotion.
2.
The process of inventing a back-formation (1).





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