Meaning of keyness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The degree to which something is key, or important.
   uncountable
2. The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus.
   uncountable

Examples

“The keyness of a summarizing symbol derives from the relative fundamentality (or ultimacy) of the meanings which it formulates, relative to other meanings of the system.”

“This was one of the weakest keywords that was found, with a keyness of 24.9.”

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