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oralness en · NOUN

Etymology

From oral + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality or condition of being oral.
    • Whereas the Chinese spectacle implied a world of objects, a happy confusion of changing characters and masks, the Black spectacle implies a theatrical oralness. 2013, Julio Ortega, Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative: