emicness

Etymology

From emic + -ness.

emicness means The state or degree of being emic. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

noun

The state or degree of being emic.“Then there is the factor of frequency — not the sole factor for arriving at load determinations, but one factor nevertheless. Immense for French 'word'-final stress, it is fairly low for English /h/ or /ŋ/ yet high for either of those units in comparison with the frequency of /ž/. Again, emicness is not the decisive issue.”