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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