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verbality

noun

Etymology

From verbal + -ity.

  1. derived from verbālis — “belonging to a word”
  2. derived from verbal
  3. suffixed as verbality — “verbal + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of consisting of words

    The state or characteristic of consisting of words; that which consists simply of verbiage.

    • For my own investigations of traditional logic lead irresistably to the conclusion that it is essentially an equivocation between psychology and verbality.
    • In other words, to read a visual poem is to betray it; to restore it to verbality is to eliminate half of its meaning.

  2. Proficiency or fluency in the use of words.

    • Generally, high communicators were found to be: college majors in humanities or natural sciences, Jewish or Catholic persons, first-born or only children, and those high in verbality.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for verbality. 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