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
- (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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