didacticityn.
/ˌdʌɪdakˈtɪsᵻti/, /ˌdɪdakˈtɪsᵻti/, U.S. /ˌdɪdækˈtɪsᵻdi/, /ˌdaɪdækˈtɪsᵻdi/ rare.
The quality of being didactic; = didacticism n.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > [noun] > instructive quality
teachableness1641
instructiveness1656
didacticism1816
didacticality1839
didacticity1848
1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 2nd Ser. 96 The German professors, of whose uninterrupted didacticity their literature bears too many marks.
1901 Bk. News Sept. 38/2 The book..not only contains dry technic and didacticity, but it is thoroughly softened and made easy by the artistic ideas of a born teacher.
1986 J. Campbell Inner Reaches of Outer Space (2002) iii. 93 Sociopolitical didacticity has in many quarters become regarded as even the sole justification of art.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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