Wordness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being a word or words. uncountable
"The move from purely descriptive, outward directive, writing toward writing centered on its wordness, its physicality, its haecceity (thisness) is, in its impulse, an investigation of human self-sameness, […]"
Synonyms
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More examples"The move from purely descriptive, outward directive, writing toward writing centered on its wordness, its physicality, its haecceity (thisness) is, in its impulse, an investigation of human self-sameness, […]"
Etymology
From word + -ness.
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