proverbiality

noun

Etymology

From proverbial + -ity.

Definitions

  1. 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