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formulaicness

noun

Etymology

From formulaic + -ness.

  1. learned borrowing from formula
  2. suffixed as formulaic — “formula + ic”
  3. suffixed as formulaicness — “formulaic + ness”

Definitions

  1. the state or condition of being formulaic

    the state or condition of being formulaic; following a formula or predictable pattern

    • "In medieval literary studies the discussion of "transitional texts" has referred particularly to the pervading formulaicness of vernacular poetry."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for formulaicness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA