Oralness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or condition of being oral. uncountable

    "Whereas the Chinese spectacle implied a world of objects, a happy confusion of changing characters and masks, the Black spectacle implies a theatrical oralness."

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"Whereas the Chinese spectacle implied a world of objects, a happy confusion of changing characters and masks, the Black spectacle implies a theatrical oralness."

Etymology

From oral + -ness.

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