Definition of "multivalence" []

• The quality of being multivalent. (noun)

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• "As for "multivalence": How multivalent is Hemingway's fiction?"
• "Neither of them bother with the distinction between "author voice" and "character voice," neither of them bow to the commands of critics urging "multivalence.""
• "The reason that an author ought to do this is that not doing so displays a lack of the multivalence that characterizes novels and a lack of sensitivity to difference in the human condition as evidenced in language."