Keyness vs Feyness - What's the difference?
keyness | feyness |
(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.}}
As nouns the difference between keyness and feyness
is that keyness is the degree to which something is key to a society while feyness is the state of being fey.keyness
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