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topicality

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top·i·cal  (tp-kl)
adj.
1. Of or belonging to a particular location or place; local.
2. Currently of interest; contemporary.
3. Medicine
a. Of or applied to a localized area of the body or to the surface of a body part.
b. Of or relating to a drug applied topically.
4. Of, arranged by, or relating to a particular topic or topics.
n.
A topical anesthetic.

[From Greek topikos, from topos, place.]

topi·cali·ty (-kl-t) n.
topi·cal·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.topicality - the attribute of being of interest at the present timetopicality - the attribute of being of interest at the present time; "the library had to discard books that had lost their topicality"
interestingness, interest - the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.); "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room"
Translations
topicality [ˌtɒpɪˈkælɪtɪ] N
1. (= current interest, importance) → actualidad f, interés m actual, importancia f actual
2. (US) → localidad f
topicality
n (of problem, event)Aktualität f
topicality [ˌtɒpɪˈkælɪtɪ] nattualità f inv


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Struck by the topicality of the reference, I checked to see if there was any chat about Eurovision on the Irish Sports section, expecting to find some comment on the ignominy of Ireland's failure to qualify for the final of a competition in which we used to exert Ballydoyle-like dominance.
Their topics include topic accent and prosodic structure, negation and focus class in Sardinian, the informational structure and the scope of lexical modality in spoken Italian, two functions of verb-subject order in Old Italian, the diachronic rearrangement of information structure in the position of clitic pronouns in Italian, information structure in Slavic languages, and acquiring the grammar of topicality in Italian as a second language.
In order to judge whether a sentence should be considered an opinion sentence or a topic-related sentence, this newly developed method focuses on the continuity of topics, and calculates the subjectivity or topicality of several sentences that appear before or after the target sentence.
 
 
 
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