Definition of "vocality" [vo•cal•i•ty]

• The quality or degree of being vocal. (noun)
• The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character. (noun)

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• "Once "vocality" is reimagined from the waver and give of textual inscription, it is always at base equi-vocation, a case of present contingency — evincing, without vouching for, the existence of a potential otherness in one and the same wording."
• "In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study."
• "Isn't this at least one thing that a poetics of alterity and ungrounded vocality might help school us in perceiving?"
• "Once "vocality" is reimagined from the waver and give of textual inscription, it is always at base equi-vocation, a case of present contingency — evincing, without vouching for, the existence of a potential otherness in one and the same wording."
• "In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study."