multivocal
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of multivocal
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What I love most is the concentrated, multivocal assertion that Black women and gender nonconforming folks are so multifaceted that they are, in fact, infinite.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
The novel’s multivocal structure gives each narrator equal weight; the collective theme that no one can ever know what another person is thinking or experiencing comes at the price of never seeing the whole truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
The splintered, multivocal, interactive flow of social media feels inimical to the single, sustained voice of the novelist, intoning for page after page, unretweetable and impervious to our DMs.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
The humor associated with black language play—with jokers like Pryor and Bernie Mac—directly descends from this multivocal tradition, and from the trouble that made it necessary.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
Whenever I meet with an ambiguous or multivocal word, without its meaning being shown and fixed, I stand on my guard against a sophism.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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