The quality of being metaphorical.

Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic.

(manner) In a metaphoric manner; not literally; by means of metaphor. / Used to draw attention that what follows is a metaphor, not to be taken literally

Like a metaphor.

The use of metaphor generally.

plural of metaphoricity

(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word or phrase.

(intransitive) To use a metaphor. / (transitive) To describe by means of a metaphor.

plural of metaphor

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metaphor