Jum C. Nunnally was a renowned psychologist and author of the seminal text Psychometric Theory . His work is the gold standard for researchers calculating the reliability of data.
When someone speaks or writes "nounally," they are using words or phrases in a way that gives them the characteristics of a noun (naming a person, place, thing, or idea) rather than a verb, adjective, or adverb. nounally
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