agglutinative

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This frugality, its most basic trait, is then tempered by its second most basic trait, its agglutinative nature—the construction of words by the incessant addition of prefixes and suffixes to the roots.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

One day, discussing Turkish, he asked a visitor if he knew what an agglutinative language was.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

For they alone instinctively divined the new spirit of the age, which may be termed co-operative and agglutinative.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris

In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

As far as the formal part of language is concerned, we cannot resist the conclusion that what is now inflectional was formerly agglutinative, and what is now agglutinative was at first radical.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max