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orality en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English oral Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English orality From oral + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being oral.
   • Indeed, this reading is particularly inappropriate among these oralities and physicalities, bordering on cannibalism. 1970, Judah Stampfer, John Donne and the metaphysical gesture, page 80:
   • McLuhan thought that writing was a supplement to speech; in fact, it was sandwiched between two oralities 1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, page 173:
   • The oralities and literacies of the past are regularly made the subject of inquiries by linguists, philosophers, theologians, anthropologists, 1990, Brian Stock, Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past, page 141:
   • Falk's theory of consumption is based on evidence of a shift in the hierarchy between two oralities: speaking and eating. 2002, Jane Dixon, The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture, page 21:

Forms

Deriveds

hyperorality

Translations (9)

ro oralitate (being oral) · ca oralitat (being oral) · es oralidad (being oral) · ga béalaireacht (being oral) · de Oralität (being oral) · gl oralidade (being oral) · it oralità (being oral) · fr oralité (being oral) · pt oralidade (being oral)