Wordness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wordness is a noun meaning The quality of being a word or words.
Meaning
The quality of being a word or words.
Example Sentences
Accuracy revealed a classic overall RVFA, an overall advantage of words over nonwords and an overall wordness …
(Here for once she even includes a word butchered of its wordness to make possible the dreadful rhyme “trois/wha.”)
Now, word-ness pertains to all words and is, therefore, regarded as a class (jati) and, so, it is said to be eternal.
[…] some independent stimulus variable (e.g., Wordness [words, nonwords] in a lexical decision task or Decision [global, local] in a hierarchic perception task) […]
Synonyms for wordness
Depending on context, synonyms include wordhood.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wordhood, wordishness, worldness, wordship, writtenness, verbalness.
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