Definition of "metaphoricity" []

• The power of a metaphor (noun)

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• "One should not take these figures for metaphors metaphoricity implies exappropriation, nor determine them according to the grammatical opposition of active/passive."
• "So what he says about the vital metaphoricity of poetic language in A Defence of Poetry is as Hogle has shown more to do with transferential agility."
• "In The Rule of Metaphor, Ricoeur argues that there is a linguistic imagination that "generates and regenerates meaning through the living power of metaphoricity." ["