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- uncountableThe state or degree of being etic.
However, there are differences in etic descriptions reflecting degrees of eticness, as it were.
1963, John Chapman Crawford, “Totontepec Mixe Phonotagmemics”, in Linguistic series, Summer Institute of Linguistics, volume 8, number 8, University of Oklahoma, →ISSN, page 172 more examples
This is true even when the inquiry deals with phenomena that have been initially emically defined (though the degree of emicness or eticness will have to be qualified).
1990, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Princeton Paperbacks), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 62Linguistically this is achieved through many instances of directly involving the readers via the easily digestible form of a personal narrative (elliptical and coordinate structures, emphatic and emotive lexical items, eticness of text, rhetorical questions and frequent switch between declarative, interrogative and imperative structures.
1997, Juliane House, Translation Quality Assessment: A Model Revisited (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik), Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, page 135Synonyms: eticity
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nounThe state or degree of being etic.
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eticness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eticness
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