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oralness

oralness noun: the quality or condition of being oral.

Noun

oralness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or condition of being oral.
    • Whereas the Chinese spectacle implied a world of objects, a happy confusion of changing characters and masks, the Black spectacle implies a theatrical oralness.2013, Julio Ortega, Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative

Origin of oralness

From oral + -ness.

Questions about oralness

What does oralness mean?
Oralness means the quality or condition of being oral.
What part of speech is oralness?
Oralness is a noun.

Words near oralness in the dictionary

  1. orally disintegrating tablet
  2. orally disintegrating tablets
  3. oralman
  4. oralmost
  5. oralnasal
  6. oralness
  7. orals
  8. Oram
  9. Orama
  10. Oramas
  11. Oramases

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