paraphrasabilityn.
/ˌparəfreɪzəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌpɛrəˌfreɪzəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The degree to which a text, etc., is paraphrasable.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > paraphrase > [noun] > capacity for paraphrase
paraphrasability1962
1962 H. Putnam in R. J. Butler Analyt. Philos. I. x. 217 Linguistic intelligibility appears to depend on matters quite other than what we can or cannot ‘settle with certainty’: e.g., on grammar, on ability to occur in coherent and appropriate discourses, on paraphrasability.
1977 Amer. Speech 1975 50 82 Constructions in which the modifier is the author of the headword, such as Zunser's hymn, also vary in their paraphrasability with have.
1992 Poetics Today 13 800 His stance on the paraphrasability of metaphors is rather strange.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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