argumentality

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English

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Etymology

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From argumental +‎ -ity.

Noun

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argumentality (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The property of having one or more arguments; the syntactic connection between the verb of a clause and related phrases.
  2. (rare) Argumentativeness.
    • 2003, Herbert Brün, Mark Enslin, Susan Parenti, Irresistible Observations, →ISBN:
      Commercialism tends to convert criticism into censorship, and critique into apologetic argumentality .

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