"wordness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: word + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|word|ness}} word + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wordness (uncountable)
  1. The quality of being a word or words. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: wordhood
    Sense id: en-wordness-en-noun-HPKgImgB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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          "ref": "c. 1975–1984, Charles Bernstein, “Three or Four Things I Know about Him” (essay), in Content’s Dream: Essays 1975–1984, Northwestern University Press (2001), page 32",
          "text": "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, […]"
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          "ref": "1980, Gaurinath Bhattacharyya Shastri, A study in the dialectics of Sphoṭa, page 11",
          "text": "Now, word-ness pertains to all words and is, therefore, regarded as a class (jati) and, so, it is said to be eternal.",
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          "ref": "1988–1989, Brain and reading: structural and functional anomalies in developmental dyslexia with special reference to hemispheric interactions, memory functions, linguistic processes, and visual analysis in reading : proceedings of the 7th International Rodin Remediation Conference at the Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm and Uppsala University, June 19-22, 1988, page 89",
          "text": "Accuracy revealed a classic overall RVFA, an overall advantage of words over nonwords and an overall wordness …"
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          "ref": "1993, Ulla E. Dydo, A Stein Reader, Northwestern University Press, page 314",
          "text": "(Here for once she even includes a word butchered of its wordness to make possible the dreadful rhyme “trois/wha.”)",
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          "ref": "1995, Fran Zaidel, \"Interhemispheric Transfer in the Split Brain: Long-term Status Following Complete Cerebral Commissurotomy\", chapter 17 of Richard J. Davidson and Kenneth Hugdahl (editors), Brain Asymmetry, MIT Press (1998), page 492",
          "text": "[…] some independent stimulus variable (e.g., Wordness [words, nonwords] in a lexical decision task or Decision [global, local] in a hierarchic perception task) […]"
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          "ref": "1996, José J. Cañas, María Teresa Bajo, “Automatic and Strategic Processes in Lexical Access”, in Manuel Carreiras, José E. García-Albea, Núria Sebastián-Gallés, editors, Language processing in Spanish, page 76",
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          "ref": "2008, Zvia Breznitz, Brain research in language, page 165",
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