commerciality

American  

[kuh-mur-shee-al-i-tee] / kəˌmɜr ʃiˈæl ɪ ti /

noun

1. commercial quality or character; ability to produce a profit.

   Distributors were concerned about the film's commerciality compared with last year's successful pictures.

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Other Word Forms

• anticommerciality
  noun
• noncommerciality
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of commerciality

First recorded in 1860–65; commercial + -ity

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Example Sentences

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commerciality

I like to think it’s because two of the things that I really try to focus on are commerciality and authenticity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

“The commerciality of Juneteenth has become this like whole, ‘Put it on a T-shirt, put it on ice cream tubs’ type of thing,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

"The commerciality of those plants will be determined by mainly the market".

From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2022

But the celebrations were also awash with commerciality.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021

It has been said that wood-engravers killed their own art so far as journalism was concerned by their surrender to commerciality with its frequent demand for the ready-to-hand rather than the superior thing.

From George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by T. Martin Wood

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