quotativenessn.
/ˈkwəʊtətᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈkwoʊdədɪvnᵻs/ The quality of being quotative.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > fondness for quotations
quotativeness1879
the mind > language > speech > narration > direct speech > [noun] > quotative word or quotativeness
quotative1893
reportative1950
quotativeness1957
1879 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 10 May He's got it. He's got it bad. Verbosity, voluminosity, verbiage and quotativeness.
1886 G. B. Shaw in Pall Mall Gaz. 26 July 5/1 A certain facetiousness and quotativeness.
1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxviii. 27 The quotativeness of the echo suggests that it be classed as a frag Q.
1999 C. Bartels Intonation Eng. Statements & Questions v. 136 Bolinger notes that the same constraint of quotativeness observed here for if applies to that.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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