oralityn.
/ɔːˈralᵻti/, U.S. /ɔˈrælədi/ 1. The quality of being oral or orally communicated; preference for or tendency to use spoken forms of language.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > fact or capability of being spoken > quality of being orally communicated
orality1666
1666 J. Sergeant Let. of Thanks 108 The Orality of the Rule of Faith.
1941 Jrnl. Politics 3 175 The principle of orality, according to which proceedings were conducted by word of mouth rather than by documentation.
1967 A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. i. 25 Orality is a most important characteristic..and we have every right to speak of the grandeurs of oral tradition.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Oct. 1323/3 The Black man enslaved took his African orality with him.
1993 Guardian 1 May 31/7 When relayed on tape or television, the power of orality, and the languages of ritual and gesture, retain their potency.
2. Psychoanalysis. The focusing of sexual energy and feeling on the mouth. See oral adj. 3c.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > [noun] > mouth as main focus
orality1934
1934 B. D. Lewin & G. Zilboorg tr. O. Fenichel Outl. Clin. Psychoanal. x. 372 Our findings then are:—ambivalence, turning against the ego, orality.
1951 W. McCord & J. McCord in Jrnl. Mental Sci. 97 765 (title) The problem of ‘orality’ and of its origin in early childhood.
1979 R. Ward tr. A. Miller Drama of Gifted Child (1981) iii. 89 What can orality mean without greed, what anality without defiance and envy?
1997 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 23 149 The African child is also weaned late, a maternal indulgence which..leads to a dangerous sensual orality.
3. Phonetics. With reference to a sound: the quality or state of being oral (see oral adj. 4).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > qualities of speech sounds
strength1550
smoothedness1574
clearness1665
apertion1668
nasality1774
accentuation1806
percussiveness1863
nasalism1876
compactness1930
over-articulation1935
orality1949
1949 Word 5 158 Nasality vs. Orality.
1952 A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. ii. 36 Features that are not actually relevant in distinguishing two phonemes, e.g. alveolarity, plosion, orality..must be taken into account all the same as contributing to the existence of both phonemes.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iv. 155 Orality and voicelessness being regarded as the absence of a feature, nasality and voice, respectively.
1989 Appl. Linguistics 10 38 The surface text will often bear such markers of orality as repetition in the channel; recurrent and plain lexis; overemphasis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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