"languageness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From language + -ness.",
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          "ref": "1970 August 20, Benjamin Boretz, “Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art from a Musical Point of View”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume LXVII, number 16, New York, N.Y.: The Journal of Philosophy, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 552",
          "text": "The issue of the languageness of the languages of art clears, moreover, if we turn from the aboutness of language to the special entityness of verbal-linguistic things, which, like art things, are entities just by virtue of being inferred as such from aspects of concreta filtered through a syntax and a semantics.",
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          "text": "Much has been written about Synthetic Scots (e.g., McClure 1990; Purves 1997; Hart 2010), which was in effect an attempt at standardizing the vernacular in order to confer attributes of languageness upon it and make it appropriate for literary usage.",
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          "ref": "2018, Peter Kuras, transl., The Secret Language of Cats: How to Understand Your Cat for a Better, Happier Relationship, HQ, page 45",
          "text": "The most recent research suggests that many animal species do have a kind of \"languageness\" that is not exactly like human language, but which is not necessarily simpler or less successful as a communicative code.",
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        "The quality of being a language."
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          "text": "The issue of the languageness of the languages of art clears, moreover, if we turn from the aboutness of language to the special entityness of verbal-linguistic things, which, like art things, are entities just by virtue of being inferred as such from aspects of concreta filtered through a syntax and a semantics.",
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          "text": "Much has been written about Synthetic Scots (e.g., McClure 1990; Purves 1997; Hart 2010), which was in effect an attempt at standardizing the vernacular in order to confer attributes of languageness upon it and make it appropriate for literary usage.",
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