extrametricality

English

Etymology

extra- +‎ metrical +‎ -ity

Noun

extrametricality (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The situation where a particular segment or prosodic unit of a word may be ignored for the purposes of determining the stresses in the word's pronunciation.

Translations

situation where certain segments of a word are irrelevant to its stress structure

• Portuguese: extrametricidade f