argumentality

argumentality

English

Etymology

    From argumental + -ity.

    Pronunciation

    • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɑɹɡjʊmənˈtælɪti/
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɑːɡjʊmənˈtælɪti/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    Noun

    argumentality (uncountable)

    1. (linguistics) The property of having one or more arguments; the syntactic connection between the verb of a clause and related phrases.
    2. (rare) Argumentativeness.
      • 2003, Herbert Brün, Mark Enslin, Susan Parenti, Irresistible Observations, →ISBN:
        Commercialism tends to convert criticism into censorship, and critique into apologetic argumentality .

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