Usually means: Communication primarily through spoken language.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. orality: Merriam-Webster
  2. orality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orality: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Orality, orality: Wordnik
  5. orality: Wiktionary
  6. orality: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. orality: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. orality: Dictionary.com
  9. Orality: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. orality: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. orality: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (orality)

▸ noun:  The state of being oral

Similar:
oralness, oracy, utterance, articulacy, oraculousness, hyperorality, aurality, orotund, verbalness, voicedness, more...

Opposite:
literacy, textuality

Adjectives:
secondary, primary, early, residual, new, pure, african, primitive, traditional, kinetic, original

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Similar:
oralness, oracy, utterance, articulacy, oraculousness, hyperorality, aurality, orotund, verbalness, voicedness, more...

Opposite:
literacy, textuality

Adjectives:
secondary, primary, early, residual, new, pure, african, primitive, traditional, kinetic, original



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