Meaning of languagey | Babel Free

Definitions

Consisting or making effective use of written language.

informal, rare

Examples

“To imagine⟳ such a world is to imagine⟳ our world: a languagey, inter-textual fictionalist world, a world of signs, a highly cultural world.”

“The overheard snippets of real feeling intermingled with poseur typecasting and provocative grandeur made Jayson feel⟳ that he could actually write⟳ this poem. He mumbled to himself, "of course, it'll take⟳ a lot of notes, but I think⟳ I know⟳ what poetry can do at this point⟳ in my development. I've now written it long enough alone and can do a dialogue scene or a narrative bit or a landscape or a really languagey abstract thing with short feminist lines or..."”

“I am a part of everything, but I am not in charge of everything, and that's a relief. I'm here to do as best I can: my watery, grainy, languagey part of the story society is constantly creating about what it means to be alive.”

“Back then, he admits he was more a fan of Seán Ó Faoláin, that other Cork writer who was "more languagey" than O'Connor.”

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