argumentality
English
Etymology
From argumental + -ity.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɑɹɡjʊmənˈtælɪti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɑːɡjʊmənˈtælɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
argumentality (uncountable)
- (linguistics) The property of having one or more arguments; the syntactic connection between the verb of a clause and related phrases.
- (rare) Argumentativeness.
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- Commercialism tends to convert criticism into censorship, and critique into apologetic argumentality .