ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Keyness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Keyness is a noun meaning (anthropology) The degree to which something is key, or important.

Meaning

(anthropology) The degree to which something is key, or important.

More Meanings

  1. (computational linguistics) The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus.

Example Sentences

This was one of the weakest keywords that was found, with a keyness of 24.9.
The keyness of a summarizing symbol derives from the relative fundamentality (or ultimacy) of the meanings which it formulates, relative to other meanings of the system.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cairns, crucialness, importantness, criticalness, significance, importancy.

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