Noun : a presumably scholarly article written in incomprehensible academese. From Dictionary.com.
The paper's advice: focus on the inventors behind the intellectual property, be ready to make a deal, and excise "academese" from your business plan. From Wordnik.com. [Inc.com] Reference
Clever but accessible, Wallace eschews what he calls "academese," and even when using words like "belletristic" or "ethicopolitical" he sounds neither confusing nor pretentious. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Collegian RSS] Reference
"Hey, I was just talking academese, honey," I said. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
And making up words like "Islamo-Fascim" in true academese?. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching Radically in the Wake of a Conservative Backlash] Reference
The prose is clear modern academese, the net cast wide and well. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
So using “academese” might reasonably indicate higher intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Writing to Impress Rather than Inform”] Reference
Western imperialism lives on, but now we're hegemonizing them with our academese. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PASSIONS OF THE TONGUE.] Reference
If I had to choose between having to read Freedman's horrible, clunky academese, or to wear a hairshirt. From Wordnik.com. [PKD and Style] Reference
Yeah, I wasn't thrilled about the writing either, but if the content is interesting enough I'm willing to hack my way through a thicket of academese. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PASSIONS OF THE TONGUE.] Reference
The stories in Oblivion remain cold, needlessly dense, mired in academese and marketing jargon, and are, for the most part, all fixated on the same cartoonish emotion of detached anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Is DFW Washed Up? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
Professor Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University, the great pioneer of commons scholarship or in academese, ‚Äö√Ñ√∫common-pool resources‚Äö√Ñ√π, gave a rich overview of the principles that define the commons. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Cooperation, Biology, Commons, and Online Communities] Reference
Richard Dyer-Bennet gave him the honorific "Professor" after hearing him get laughs by weaving a series of non sequiturs into faux academese. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
I was fortunate to have an advisor who recognized the fact that "PhD" was academese for "union card," and this is the ONLY way I made it to the end of the process and graduated. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Higher Ed] Reference
Although my reading in this issue is far from complete, it appears as a whole to be less freighted than usual with academese, the erudite patois that, for instance, bogs down the proceedings in "Archives, Alan Moore, and the Historio-Graphic Novel.". From Wordnik.com. [The Comics Journal] Reference
Undeniably charismatic and intelligent -- with a voluble speaking manner and Cold War-villain accent -- Žižek's excelled at the art of packaging dense academese (he can explain Hegel clearly in about ten minutes, which is a special talent) and sexing it up though his infectious enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [IFC.com - Indie Eye] Reference
So if Robert’s so-called prediction is true, I don’t foresee it kicking in until long after I become “emeritus,” which is academese for “retired.”. From Wordnik.com. [How Online Communities and Flawed Reasoning Sound a Death Knell for Qualitative Methods] Reference
Rugh, a history professor at Brigham Young (whose style blessedly stints on academese), treats this period of post – World War II innocence — or Cold War escapism, depending on one’s point of view — with a healthy revisionism minus any smudge of sepia sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [Cover to Cover] Reference
That’s pretty much of a non-sequitur: the most using ‘academese’ indicates is possession of a large but not necessarily accurate vocabulary; to wit, a professor I recall who wrote “abrogate” when he meant ‘arrogate’ and where ‘usurp’ would have served him better. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Writing to Impress Rather than Inform”] Reference
So it doesn’t surprise you that, when you cite Oblivion as being “cold, needlessly dense, mired in academese and marketing jargon, and are, for the most part, all fixated on the same cartoonish emotion of detached anxiety” you hit on the problem with in my eyes everything he’s ever wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Is DFW Washed Up? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
“Not rehiring” is academese for “firing.”. From Wordnik.com. [BYU fires instructor for supporting gay marriage] Reference
Is this "academese?". From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
To be sure, Philippou, a British architect and architectural historian, indulges in some academic gobbledygook (that marker of hip academese, “the Other,” makes its appearance far too often), but in authoritatively assessing Niemeyer’s work and its place in architectural and Brazilian cultural history, she has marshaled such diverse subjects as 18th-century colonial Portuguese architecture, bossa nova, the topography and cultural geography of Copacabana Beach, and the design-selection process for the UN headquarters. From Wordnik.com. [A Vision in Concrete] Reference
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