metaphoricityn.

Brit.

/ˌmɛtəfəˈrɪsᵻti/, U.S.

/ˈˌmɛdəfəˈrɪsᵻdi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: metaphor n., -icity suffix.

Etymology: < metaphor n. + -icity suffix, probably after French métaphoricité (1970); compare metaphoric adj., metaphorical adj.

The fact or quality of being metaphorical; metaphorical nature, figurativeness.

ΚΠ

1970 Yale French Stud. No. 45. 66 The figure inscribes the place, constitutes the stage on which our own critical language with all its secret metaphoricity unrolls itself.

1976 G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatol. p. xxiv It is also possible to criticize Nietzsche's indefinite expansion of the notion of metaphoricity or figuration as a gesture that turns back upon itself.

1982 J. Gallop Feminism & Psychoanal. (1990) 100 In a Lacanian view of language a signifier always signifies another signifier; no word is free from metaphoricity.

1994 Callaloo 17 1069 I want to insist..on the metaphoricity of my project.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	metaphoricity
释义	metaphoricityn. Brit. /ˌmɛtəfəˈrɪsᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəfəˈrɪsᵻdi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: metaphor n., -icity suffix. Etymology: < metaphor n. + -icity suffix, probably after French métaphoricité (1970); compare metaphoric adj., metaphorical adj. The fact or quality of being metaphorical; metaphorical nature, figurativeness. ΚΠ 1970 Yale French Stud. No. 45. 66 The figure inscribes the place, constitutes the stage on which our own critical language with all its secret metaphoricity unrolls itself. 1976 G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatol. p. xxiv It is also possible to criticize Nietzsche's indefinite expansion of the notion of metaphoricity or figuration as a gesture that turns back upon itself. 1982 J. Gallop Feminism & Psychoanal. (1990) 100 In a Lacanian view of language a signifier always signifies another signifier; no word is free from metaphoricity. 1994 Callaloo 17 1069 I want to insist..on the metaphoricity of my project. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1970
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