unpoeticity

Noun

unpoeticity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being unpoetic.
   • However, in our zeal to eliminate the ‘unpoeticity’ of the translation, we have also got rid of an important asset of the original—its characteristic roughness.1997, Michał Pawica, “The case of translation: the short-cummings of Polish”, in Alan K[enneth] Melby, editor, The Twenty-third LACUS Forum 1996, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Linguistic Association of Canada...
   • Thus, it is the issue of heritage that weighs on the poetic production of the 1980s. But, as the persistence of certain motifs of realistic “unpoeticity” demonstrate, this inheritance that leans more toward the esthetic than the engagé did not lead to the hermetic and hermeticizing ivory tower.1997 spring, Roberto Deidier, “Looking at the 1980s: Some Notes Linking Poetics and Poetry”, in World Literature Today, volume 71, number 2, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page...

   Synonyms:

   unpoeticality, unpoeticalness, unpoeticness

   Antonyms:

   poeticality, poeticalness, poeticity, poeticness