Foregroundable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

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"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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