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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

tipicidade

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tipisidade

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Typicality/ˌtɪp.ɪˈkæl.ə.ti/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A tipicidade cultural do evento atrai muitos turistas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state or quality of being typical or representative of a particular group, class, or category.

    "The high typicality of the bird species made it an easy choice for the textbook illustration."
  2. 2

    In cognitive psychology and categorization, the degree to which an object is perceived as a core member of a concept.

    "Participants judged robins with higher typicality than penguins when asked to think of a bird."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adjective typical, originating from the Late Latin typicus, from Ancient Greek typikos (pertaining to a type or figure), combined with the English suffix -ity. It emerged in modern scientific, psychological, and linguistic discourse to denote the degree to which an item exemplifies a particular category.

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