"metaphoricness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From metaphoric + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|metaphoric|ness}} metaphoric + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} metaphoricness (uncountable)
  1. (rare) The quality of being metaphoric. Tags: rare, uncountable Synonyms: metaphoricality, metaphoricalness, metaphoricity
    Sense id: en-metaphoricness-en-noun-mxH3-iPm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "1961, Paul Meadows, “[Agrarian Virtue and Republican Freedom: An Historical Perspective] Discussion”, in Goals and Values in Agricultural Policy, Ames, Ia.: Iowa State University Press, →LCCN, page 65:",
          "text": "In time, the irrational refusal to accept the reality of an other-controlled existence ends in the pseudoschizophrenic posture, in which the offended but innocent self-styled victim complains, “I am damned if I do, and I am damned if I don’t.” This double bind – as Gregory Bateson and his colleagues call it – is characterized by the most hopeless confusion of literalness and metaphoricness. Like the schizophrenic patient, the embattled and confined and angry and anxious part, persisting in his metaphorical identity with the collective good, seems doomed to some permanent rupture with reality.",
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          "text": "If now we put together the syntagmatic principle, of metaphors occurring in syndromes and the paradigmatic principle of an ordered series of metaphorical steps, we can see that the two axes together define a semantic space, within which metaphoric variation in the grammar creates its meaning. It is a highly elastic space, with enormous semogenic potential. For any given instance, there are not simply two alternative wordings, one congruent, the other metaphorical (the Doric and the Attic that I started with), but rather a range over different degrees of metaphoricness, which moreover may be spread quite unevenly across the syndrome.",
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