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  • noun an elaborated concept.

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  • noun the state or quality of being conceptual

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  • noun an elaborated concept

Etymologies

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conceptual +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • The Mariner's conceptuality is resonant in the sliminess of "a million million slimy things" (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), 4.230); a register picked up again in Sartre's disturbingly phobic Being and Nothingness (601-15) .13

    'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

  • In this sense, Blake’s conceptuality is materiality, and his conceptual art a form of materialism as such, rather than only by virtue of its irreducible association with matter.

    Plotnitsky, Notes 2001

  • "I don't really understand why the judges felt like it needed to be laced with conceptuality," Mitchell, 32, said.

    Work of Art's Dusty on Why Jerry Was Wrong and Having His Own Short Shorts 2011

  • Which is, I would argue, exactly how it should be for a type of fiction which is being identified entirely by its conceptuality.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Which is, I would argue, exactly how it should be for a type of fiction which is being identified entirely by its conceptuality.

    Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

  • It is innately populist in its focus on commerciality and innately elitist in its focus on conceptuality.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Cazeaux seems far too comfortable expressing Heideggerian themes and concerns in the language of conceptuality, as if Heidegger might be grouped in with a certain epistemological school.

    Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009

  • Cazeaux seems far too comfortable expressing Heideggerian themes and concerns in the language of conceptuality, as if Heidegger might be grouped in with a certain epistemological school.

    Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009

  • Language and vocabulary broaden mental horizons and conceptuality, which in turn enables people to better and broaden their real horizons and physicality.

    Oil-garchical Collectivism 2009

  • You've found just the right mix of humor, playfulness and conceptuality to be different and interesting.

    Highly corrosive. Jessica Hagy 2007

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