oralness

English

Etymology

oral +‎ -ness

Noun

oralness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or condition of being oral.
    • 2013, Julio Ortega, Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative‎:
      Whereas the Chinese spectacle implied a world of objects, a happy confusion of changing characters and masks, the Black spectacle implies a theatrical oralness.
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