speakingness

English

Etymology

speaking +‎ -ness

Noun

speakingness (uncountable)

1. Expressiveness; eloquence.
   • 1822, John Howe, The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A., page 402:

     What pretence hath the unbeliever, or any heart, against the speakingness and significancy of this testimony?

2. The quality of producing or conveying speech.
   • 2014, Claire Davison, Translation as Collaboration, page 52:

     From this perspective, thematic or referential similarities count less than a sensually alert feel of the text: sounds, sights, echoes and colours as carried by the 'speakingness' of living language.