keyness

English

From key +‎ -ness.

keyness (uncountable)

(anthropology) The degree to which something is key, or important.
- 1973, Sherry B. Ortner, “On Key Symbols”, in American Anthropology‎^[1], volume 75:
  The keyness of a summarizing symbol derives from the relative fundamentality (or ultimacy) of the meanings which it formulates, relative to other meanings of the system.
(computational linguistics) The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus.
- 2005, Paul Baker, Public Discourse of Gay Men‎^[2], →ISBN, page 160:
  This was one of the weakest keywords that was found, with a keyness of 24.9.