"emicness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: emic + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|emic|ness}} emic + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} emicness (uncountable)
  1. The state or degree of being emic. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: emicity Coordinate_terms: eticness
    Sense id: en-emicness-en-noun-qmtphhB6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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          "ref": "1970, R.S. Meyerstein, edited by C.H. Van Schooneveld, Functional Load: Descriptive Limitations, Alternatives of Assessment, and Extensions of Application (Janua Linguarum (Series Minor)), volume 99, Mouton, page 52",
          "text": "Then there is the factor of frequency — not the sole factor for arriving at load determinations, but one factor nevertheless. Immense for French 'word'-final stress, it is fairly low for English /h/ or /ŋ/ yet high for either of those units in comparison with the frequency of /ž/. Again, emicness is not the decisive issue.",
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          "text": "Quine (in Shahan and Merrill 1977¹⁸¹, and see III, above) in dealing with 'observation sentences' (e.g. in pointing at things) is touching implicitly on the emicness of insider viewpoints, when he says that 'The main thing to settle, in the way of fixing objects, is their individuation: we have to fix standards of sameness and difference.' For tagmemics, emic sameness is relative to the insider viewpoint.",
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