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foregroundable en · ADJ

Etymology

From foreground + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being brought to the foreground.
   • Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants. 1990, Suzanne Fleischman, Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, page 181:
   • [The Ulysses legend] existed in more coherent form and was thus more easily foregroundable[…] 2012, Richard Daniel Lehan, Literary Modernism and Beyond, page 155:
   • So John finished his coffee is more foregroundable than John didn't finish his coffee or John could have finished his coffee, but it is obvious that context is in these cases extremely important and even more so are our expectations about what usually happens[…] 2004, Tuija Virtanen, Approaches to Cognition Through Text and Discourse, page 104:

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