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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca