keyness

English

Etymology

From key +‎ -ness.

Noun

keyness (uncountable)

  1. (anthropology) The degree to which something is key, or important.
    • 1973, Sherry B. Ortner, “On Key Symbols”, in American Anthropology‎[1], volume 75:
      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.
  2. (computational linguistics) The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus.
    • 2005, Paul Baker, Public Discourse of Gay Men‎[2], →ISBN, page 160:
      This was one of the weakest keywords that was found, with a keyness of 24.9.

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