Meaning

The quality of being a word or words..

Example Sentences

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, […]

Accuracy revealed a classic overall RVFA, an overall advantage of words over nonwords and an overall wordness …

[…] some independent stimulus variable (e.g., Wordness [words, nonwords] in a lexical decision task or Decision [global, local] in a hierarchic perception task) […]

Now, word-ness pertains to all words and is, therefore, regarded as a class (jati) and, so, it is said to be eternal.

(Here for once she even includes a word butchered of its wordness to make possible the dreadful rhyme “trois/wha.”)

For example, it is possible that when many strong targets are introduced in the list, only strong relations are taken as evidence of wordness, whereas when many related pairs are included, both weak and strong relations would be taken as evidence of wordness.

McLaughlin, Osterhout, and Kim (2004), for example, used the known sensitivity of the N400 to semantic relationships and lexicality (or wordness – the property of a string of letters representing an actual word) [...]

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Use wordness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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