inanimacy

English

Etymology

inanimate +‎ -cy

Noun

inanimacy (usually uncountable, plural inanimacies)

(linguistics) In some languages, opposite of animacy, which affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension, etc.).

Antonyms

animacy

Related terms

Translations

quality of being inanimate

French: inaniméité f, inanimacité f
German: Unbelebtheit f

Russian: неодушевлённость (ru) f (neoduševljónnostʹ)

Anagrams

amicyanin

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