speakingness
English
Etymology
speaking + -ness
Noun
speakingness (uncountable)
- Expressiveness; eloquence.
- 1822, John Howe, The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. (page 402)
- What pretence hath the unbeliever, or any heart, against the speakingness and significancy of this testimony?
- 1822, John Howe, The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. (page 402)
- The quality of producing or conveying speech.
- 2014, Claire Davison, Translation as Collaboration (page 52)
- From this perspective, thematic or referential similarities count less than a sensually alert feel of the text: sounds, sights, echoes and colours as carried by the 'speakingness' of living language.
- 2014, Claire Davison, Translation as Collaboration (page 52)