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orality

noun

Etymology

From oral + -ity.

  1. borrowed from ōrālis
  2. suffixed as orality — “oral + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state of being oral.

    • Indeed, this reading is particularly inappropriate among these oralities and physicalities, bordering on cannibalism.
    • The oralities and literacies of the past are regularly made the subject of inquiries by linguists, philosophers, theologians, anthropologists,
    • McLuhan thought that writing was a supplement to speech; in fact, it was sandwiched between two oralities

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for orality. 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