eticness

noun

1. (uncountable)The state or degree of being etic.

   “However, there are differences in etic descriptions reflecting degrees of eticness, as it were.”

   “This is true even when the inquiry deals with phenomena that have been initially emically defined (though the degree of emicness or eticness will have to be qualified).”

   “Linguistically this is achieved through many instances of directly involving the readers via the easily digestible form of a personal narrative (elliptical and coordinate structures, emphatic and emotive lexical items, eticness of text, rhetorical questions and frequent switch between declarative, interrogative and imperative structures.”