Definition of "keyness" [keyness]

• The degree to which something is key to a society (noun)
• The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus. (noun)

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• "Was the low-keyness due to the country's economic situation?"
• "Typically, language fails when seeking to plumb the depths of Reid's low-keyness."
• "Daniel Kasman, though, it "successfully walks the line between inspiring eroticism and thrills from its situation and prodding snickers out its audience ... the film remains entrenched in its own low-keyness and seems to have little desire to be anything other than successfully amusing.""