unpoeticness

Noun

unpoeticness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being unpoetic.
   • Beyond these positive remarks about Spinoza’s intentions and beyond Schleiermacher’s adoption of Spinoza’s “unpoeticness” in his own treatment of the “mythical” parts of the New Testament, we also find him using language in The Christian Faith that is reminiscent of his own description of Spinoza’s...1970, Richard R[einhold] Niebuhr, “Schleiermacher and the Names of God: A Consideration of Schleiermacher in Relation to Our Theisms”, in Robert W[alter] Funk, editor, Schleiermacher as Contemporary...
   • George “translates” into “poetic language” what in Baudelaire breaks out of it. All the things the “poetic” avoids—industry, social unrest, technology—become materials for Baudelaire not in spite of their unpoeticness but because of it.2003, Barbara Johnson, “The Task of the Translator”, in Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 43

   Synonyms:

   unpoeticality, unpoeticalness, unpoeticity

   Antonyms:

   poeticality, poeticalness, poeticity, poeticness