Keyness vs Keyless - What's the difference?
keyness | keyless |
(anthropology) The degree to which something is key to a society
* {{quote-journal, 1973, Sherry B. Ortner, On Key Symbols, American Anthropology
, 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
, passage=This was one of the weakest keywords that was found, with a keyness of 24.9.}}
Lacking or not requiring a key
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 14, author=Micheline Maynard, title=Car Keys Could Go the Way of Tail Fins, work=New York Times
, passage=Today’s keyless models use a fob — the small remote control device that most modern cars use to lock and unlock doors — but it performs the additional duty of sending a signal to the ignition. }}
As a noun keyness
is (anthropology) the degree to which something is key to a society.As an adjective keyless is
lacking or not requiring a key.keyness
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* Keyneskeyless
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