evidentiality
/ˌɛ.vɪˌdɛn.ʃiˈælɪti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The encoding into a language of the source of information being communicated, so as to distinguish (for example) hearsay from something actually witnessed.
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
From evidential + -ity.