Definition of "wordness" in English

noun

1. The quality of being a word or words.

   • The move from purely descriptive, outward directive, writing toward writing centered on its wordness, its physicality, its haecceity (thisness) is, in its impulse, an investigation of human self-sameness, […]
   • Accuracy revealed a classic overall RVFA, an overall advantage of words over nonwords and an overall wordness …
   • […] some independent stimulus variable (e.g., Wordness [words, nonwords] in a lexical decision task or Decision [global, local] in a hierarchic perception task) […]