secondariness
- noun
- /ˌsɛkənˈdɛrɪnəs/
- Formal
:
secundariedad
- The secondariness of her role in the project became evident when the main decisions were made without her input.
Examples
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Her contributions were often dismissed due to the secondariness of her position within the organization.
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In the discussion, he highlighted the secondariness of the minor characters compared to the protagonist.
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"What makes them alike is that 'secondariness' is their common law.
Academic text (2006) -
What I am calling the "secondariness" of the artwork derives from the fact that its specifically subject-constituting power, if any, is derivative.
Academic text (1994) -
By linking works to each other, we bring them out of the neglect and secondariness to which, for all kinds of political and ideological reasons, they had previously been condemned.
Academic text (1991) -
It is against this secondariness of consumptive production that Marx develops his dialectics.
Academic text (1996) -
But to establish itself as a historical rather than aesthetic inquiry, art history needs fully to acknowledge the secondariness—even the "reflectedness"—of artworks.
Academic text (1994) -
In calling Pissarro's paintings "portraits" of corners of the world, Duret acknowledges a desire on Pissarro's part to appropriate "realist" praxis in all its partialness and secondariness.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
Being less important or having less power than others
Antonyms
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word secondariness comes from secondary, which in turn comes from second meaning 'coming after' or 'following'. The part -ness makes it the 'state of' being secondary, so secondariness means being less important or not original.