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markedness

noun

Etymology

From marked + -ness.

  1. derived from *mórǵs✻
  2. derived from *markō✻
  3. derived from *marku✻
  4. derived from mearc
  5. derived from mark
  6. formed as marked — “mark + -ed”
  7. suffixed as markedness — “marked + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less…

    The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.

    • Using the word "comedienne" instead of "comedian" can be seen as an example of markedness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for markedness. 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