Foregroundable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Foregroundable is an adjective meaning Capable of being brought to the foreground.
Meaning
Capable of being brought to the foreground.
Example Sentences
[The Ulysses legend] existed in more coherent form and was thus more easily foregroundable[…]
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.
So John finished his coffee is more foregroundable than John didn't finish his coffee or John could have finished his coffee, but it is obvious that context is in these cases extremely important and even more so are our expectations about what usually happens[…]
Related Words
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