hygienic
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Meaning · English
Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
Register: slang
Where it’s used:
Used
American English
Examples
Of course, anyone with a Scheme background is probably howling at this point because they have a hygienic macro system that makes unintended variable capture impossible. Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic sys
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “hygienic” mean?
Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
Is “hygienic” formal or informal?
hygienic is generally slang.