The condition of being lexical. / The degree to which something is lexical.

Synonym of lexical

(semantics) A term—word or a sequence of words—that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs and proverbs, exemplified by cat, traffic light, take care of, by-the-way, and don't count your chickens before they hatch.

plural of lexical category

(linguistics) A set of cognate words or morphemes in two or more related languages, where regular sound correspondences occur between the phonemes contained in the words.

(semantics) Synonym of lexical item

(computer science) The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing.

plural of lexical analyzer

(computing) A computer program that performs lexical analysis.

(linguistics) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb.