keyness
nounEtymology From key + -ness.
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Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences The degree to which something is key, or important.
- The keyness of a summarizing symbol derives from the relative fundamentality (or ultimacy) of the meanings which it formulates, relative to other meanings of the system.1973, Sherry B. Ortner, “On Key Symbols”, in American Anthropology, volume 75:
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Computational, Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Linguistics, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus.
- This was one of the weakest keywords that was found, with a keyness of 24.9.2005, Paul Baker, Public Discourse of Gay Men, →ISBN, page 160:
- Related terms
- low-keyness, Keynes