iconicity
Americannoun
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It’s the visuality, the iconicity of Auschwitz that constitutes it.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2018
I think it’s by overuse of the same iconicity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
Sound symbolic words similarly capture sound intensities but it gets trickier to maintain iconicity when denoting directions or brightness.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2015
It’s a lovely image, framed in long-shot, playing off Pattinson’s iconicity and his intense desire to be alone.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2014
I’d rather believe that there’s some magic in a low-key shake done to the waltz-time specified by Nick Charles—as in The Nick & Nora, which coasts ahead of the worthy All-American by sheer iconicity.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2013
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