foregroundable
Definitions
Capable of being brought to the foreground.
Examples
“Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict⟳ nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants.”
“So John finished his coffee is more foregroundable than John didn't finish⟳ his coffee or John could have⟳ finished his coffee, but it is obvious that context is in these cases extremely important and even more so are our expectations about what usually happens[…]”
“[The Ulysses legend] existed in more coherent form⟳ and was thus more easily foregroundable[…]”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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