oralness

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noun

The quality or condition of being oral.

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Meanings

nounoralness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality or condition of being oral.

    Whereas the Chinese spectacle implied a world of objects, a happy confusion of changing characters and masks, the Black spectacle implies a theatrical oralness.

    2013, Julio Ortega, Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative

Origin

From oral + -ness.

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APA

oralness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oralness

MLA

“oralness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oralness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oralness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oralness.

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