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metaphoricality

metaphoricality noun: the quality of being metaphorical.

Noun

metaphoricality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being metaphorical.
    • The barrier Antheil drilled holes in when he “composed” mechanisms, (Did not one of his works require sixteen pianos and a screen?) and Dos Passos splintered when he described a group of straight-faced elderly relatives arrived in mourning garb at a house of death for funeral and reading of Will...1929 June, Dorothy M[iller] Richardson, “Continuous Performance: Almost Persuaded”, in K[enneth] Macpherson, Bryher [pseudonym; Annie Winifred Ellerman], editors, Close Up: The Only Magazine Devoted...
    • But once again there came this strange surprise that the emitters stood all around me. I was not receiving from any one direction, but from all directions. Though once again, direction is too physical a word. I was having feelings that no language based on concrete physical objects, on actual...1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 227

Examples of metaphoricality in a sentence

  • I think I was aware of the metaphoricality of what I felt.1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 227:
  • In recent years, however, abundant evidence has been advanced in support of the idea that metaphoricality is no exoticism in the garden of language but a widespread indigenous part of the flora.1996, Michael Toolan, “Introduction”, in Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (Post-Contemporary Interventions)...

Synonyms of metaphoricality

Origin of metaphoricality

From metaphorical + -ity.

Questions about metaphoricality

What does metaphoricality mean?
Metaphoricality means the quality of being metaphorical.
How do you use metaphoricality in a sentence?
I think I was aware of the metaphoricality of what I felt.
What part of speech is metaphoricality?
Metaphoricality is a noun.

Words near metaphoricality in the dictionary

  1. metaphored
  2. metaphoreme
  3. metaphoremes
  4. metaphoric
  5. metaphorical
  6. metaphoricality
  7. metaphorically
  8. metaphoricalness
  9. metaphorician
  10. metaphoricians
  11. metaphoricities

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