metaphoricity
metaphoricity noun: the quality of being metaphorical.
Noun
metaphoricity (usually uncountable, plural metaphoricities)
- 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
- Programmers create software by developing abstractions to describe the behaviour of their programs. These abstractions begin life as metaphors. The classic theory of abstraction in programming holds that abstraction is a form of “information hiding”. This theory has had noticeable impact on early...2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, →DOI
- Synonyms:
- metaphoricality, metaphoricalness, metaphoricness
Synonyms of metaphoricity
Forms of metaphoricity
| plural | metaphoricities |
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Origin of metaphoricity
From metaphoric + -ity.
Words formed from metaphoricity
Questions about metaphoricity
- What does metaphoricity mean?
- Metaphoricity means the quality of being metaphorical.
- What part of speech is metaphoricity?
- Metaphoricity is a noun.
- What is the plural of metaphoricity?
- The plural of metaphoricity is metaphoricities.
Words near metaphoricity in the dictionary
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