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The quality of being metaphorical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- 1999, Preface to Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: metaphoricality, metaphoricalness, metaphoricness
Antonyms: none provided
Etymology tree English metaphor Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English metaphoric Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English metaphoricity From metaphoric + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
метафоричност
(metaforičnost)
— quality of being a metaphor
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Spanish:
metaforicidad
— quality of being a metaphor
