foregroundable

English

Etymology

foreground +‎ -able

Adjective

foregroundable (comparative more foregroundable, superlative most foregroundable)

1. Capable of being brought to the foreground.
   • 1990, Suzanne Fleischman, Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, page 181:

     Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants.

   • 2004, Tuija Virtanen, Approaches to Cognition Through Text and Discourse, page 104:

     So John finished his coffee is more foregroundable than John didn't finish his coffee or John could have finished his coffee, but it is obvious that context is in these cases extremely important and even more so are our expectations about what usually happens […]

   • 2012, Richard Daniel Lehan, Literary Modernism and Beyond, page 155:

     [The Ulysses legend] existed in more coherent form and was thus more easily foregroundable […]