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metaphoricities

metaphoricities is the plural of metaphoricity.

Meaning of metaphoricity

Noun

metaphoricity (usually uncountable, plural metaphoricities)

  1. (usually) The quality of being metaphorical.
    • Just as metaphors lose their metaphoricity as they congeal through time into concepts, so subversive performances always run the risk of becoming deadening cliches through their repetition and, most importantly, through their repetition within commodity culture where subversion carries market value.1999, Preface to Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Questions about metaphoricities

What is metaphoricities the plural of?
Metaphoricities is the plural of metaphoricity.

Words near metaphoricities in the dictionary

  1. metaphoricality
  2. metaphorically
  3. metaphoricalness
  4. metaphorician
  5. metaphoricians
  6. metaphoricities
  7. metaphoricity
  8. metaphorick
  9. metaphoricness
  10. metaphorics
  11. metaphoring

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