esperantism

A feature or affectation of Esperanto.

The international language idea would suffer a long eclipse; and when it emerged again, it would be in a form totally free from “Esperantisms” — most probably in the form of simplified Latin.

We are dealing here not with a poetic convention but with a fundamental characteristic of the language — a characteristic further illustrated in the ability to use grammatical morphemes as lexical units, thereby enriching the vocabulary with a whole series of lexemes derived from essentially grammatical devices: ano = membro, aĵo = objekto, aro = grupo, ejo = loko, eta = malgranda, ege = multe, ene = interne, and so on. These can be considered as authentic Esperantisms — as can constructions which in a sense move in the opposite direction: suni, furiozi, fervori, malĉasti, ebli, and others.

The practice of using or participating in the ideals of Esperanto.