Foregroundable
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Capable of being brought to the foreground.
"Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants."
Example
More examples"Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants."
Etymology
From foreground + -able.
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