Associations to the word «Markedness»

Wiktionary

MARKEDNESS, noun. (linguistics) The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan