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Definition of 'keyness'

English

Noun

  • (anthropology) The degree to which something is key to a society
  • * {{quote-journal|1973|Sherry B. Ortner|On Key Symbols|American Anthropology citation
  • |passage=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.}}
  • (computational linguistics) The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus.
  • * {{quote-book|2005|Paul Baker|Public Discourse of Gay Men citation
  • |passage=This was one of the weakest keywords that was found, with a keyness of 24.9.}}

    See also

    * Keynes