proverbiality
nounEtymology
From proverbial + -ity.
Definitions
The state or characteristic of being proverbial.
- The degree of proverbiality, or currency in oral tradition, attained by these exaggerations is difficult to assess.
- Because other aspects are also seen as contributing to proverbiality—equivocation, authoritativeness, and negotiation of power relations—a text may be proverbial to various degrees.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for proverbiality. 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