eticness

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English

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Etymology

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From etic +‎ -ness.

Noun

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eticness (uncountable)

  1. The state or degree of being etic.
    Synonym: eticity
    • 1963, John Chapman Crawford, “Totontepec Mixe Phonotagmemics”, in Linguistic series, Summer Institute of Linguistics[1], volume 8, number 8, University of Oklahoma, →ISSN, page 17:
      However, there are differences in etic descriptions reflecting degrees of eticness, as it were.
    • 1990, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Princeton Paperbacks)‎[2], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 62:
      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).
    • 1997, Juliane House, Translation Quality Assessment: A Model Revisited (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik), Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, page 135:
      Linguistically 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.

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