metaphoricness

Noun

metaphoricness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being metaphoric.
   • In time, the irrational refusal to accept the reality of an other-controlled existence ends in the pseudoschizophrenic posture, in which the offended but innocent self-styled victim complains, “I am damned if I do, and I am damned if I don’t.” This double bind – as Gregory Bateson and his...1961, Paul Meadows, “[Agrarian Virtue and Republican Freedom: An Historical Perspective] Discussion”, in Goals and Values in Agricultural Policy, Ames, Ia.: Iowa State University Press, →LCCN, page 65
   • [Roman] Jakobson himself showed long ago that the supposedly indispensable criterion of poetry, “metaphoricness,” can, on occasion, be dispensed with or can be replaced by metonymic relations, grammatical echoes, and contrasts.1970, René Wellek, “Stylistics, Poetics, and Criticism”, in Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 341

   Synonyms:

   metaphoricality, metaphoricalness, metaphoricity