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bananahood

bananahood noun: the property or state of being a banana, chiefly in various idiomatic contexts.

Noun

bananahood (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The property or state of being a banana, chiefly in various idiomatic contexts.
    • Ordinary, non-metaphorical, exemplification is unproblematic. All of the instances of exemplification considered so far are non-metaphorical. The paint chip literally can exemplify the property of being teal since it literally is teal. The banana literally exemplifies bananahood since it really is...2003 September 2, James O. Young, Art and Knowledge, Routledge, →ISBN, page 73
    • Hobbes is denying here that there are real objects, often called “universal”, which underlie our uses of language. Take bananas. We routinely apply the term “banana” to certain specimens of curvaceous yellowish soft fruit. Someone who believes that the world really contains universals will hold...2008 January 7, Glen Newey, Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hobbes and Leviathan, Routledge, →ISBN, page 39

Examples of bananahood in a sentence

  • The banana literally exemplifies bananahood since it really is bananoid.2003 September 2, James O. Young, Art and Knowledge, Routledge, →ISBN, page 73:
  • Someone who believes that the world really contains universals will hold that there is a universal property of bananahood, which all bananas possess.2008 January 7, Glen Newey, Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hobbes and Leviathan, Routledge, →ISBN, page 39:
  • It is funnier for a second banana to play the lead than for a lead to pretend to second bananahood.2012 December 4, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 86:
  • Moreover, in the presence of spontaneous fluctuations of the activity, different aspects of “bananahood” will flash up.2016 November 4, Michael A. Arbib, James J. Bonaiuto, From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 203:

Origin of bananahood

From banana + -hood.

Questions about bananahood

What does bananahood mean?
Bananahood means the property or state of being a banana, chiefly in various idiomatic contexts.
How do you use bananahood in a sentence?
The banana literally exemplifies bananahood since it really is bananoid.
What part of speech is bananahood?
Bananahood is a noun.

Words near bananahood in the dictionary

  1. bananacues
  2. bananadine
  3. bananaey
  4. Bananagate
  5. bananageddon
  6. bananahood
  7. Bananaland
  8. Bananalander
  9. Bananalanders
  10. bananaless
  11. bananalike

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