Metaphoricality

Quick meaning: Metaphoricality is a noun meaning The quality of being metaphorical.

Meaning

The quality of being metaphorical.

Example Sentences

In recent years, however, abundant evidence has been advanced in support of the idea that metaphoricality is no exoticism in the garden of language but a widespread indigenous part of the flora. Everyday language itself is riddled with metaphors, albeit often rather faded or worn ones.

But once again there came this strange surprise that the emitters stood all around me. I was not receiving from any one direction, but from all directions. Though once again, direction is too physical a word. I was having feelings that no language based on concrete physical objects, on actual feeling, can describe. I think I was aware of the metaphoricality of what I felt. I knew words were like chains, they held me back; and like walls with holes in them.

Synonyms for metaphoricality

Depending on context, synonyms include metaphoricalness, metaphoricity, metaphoricness.

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