animacy

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Definitions of animacy word

noun animacy the state of being alive and animate 3
noun animacy (linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its living or sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension etc). 1

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Parts of speech for Animacy

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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animacy popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 7% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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