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didacticity

didacticity noun: aptitude for teaching.

Noun

didacticity (uncountable)

  1. Aptitude for teaching.
    • The best training for style is speech; not monologues, or lectures ex cathedra, like those of the German professors, of whose uninterrupted didacticity their literature bears too many marks1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

Origin of didacticity

From didactic + -ity.

Questions about didacticity

What does didacticity mean?
Didacticity means aptitude for teaching.
What part of speech is didacticity?
Didacticity is a noun.

Words near didacticity in the dictionary

  1. didacticians
  2. didacticism
  3. didacticisms
  4. didacticist
  5. didacticists
  6. didacticity
  7. didacticization
  8. didacticize
  9. didacticized
  10. didacticizes
  11. didacticizing

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