ambilingualism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The condition of being ambilingual; the ability to speak two or more languages with nativelike proficiency and fluency, treating them as completely equal without dominance of one over the other.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As has been noted, bilingualism is frequently still assumed to be synonymous with ambilingualism (i.e. native-like competence in both languages), although researchers in bilingualism have identified a large number of forms depending on whether the respective definition concentrates on age of acquisition, order and sequence of acquisition, mental organisation, function, level of proficiency or/and social aspects involved."
Etymology
From ambilingual + -ism.