speakingness
nounEtymology From speaking + -ness.
1
Expressiveness; eloquence.
- What pretence hath the unbeliever, or any heart, against the speakingness and significancy of this testimony?1822, John Howe, The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A., page 402:
2
The quality of producing or conveying speech.
- From this perspective, thematic or referential similarities count less than a sensually alert feel of the text: sounds, sights, echoes and colours as carried by the 'speakingness' of living language.2014, Claire Davison, Translation as Collaboration, page 52: