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addressivity

addressivity noun: the quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor.

Noun

addressivity (plural addressivities)

  1. The quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor
    • Evidently, in certain languages some of these meanings may be expressed by special affixes (without a causative meaning), as, for example, the meanings of commitativity (cf. 6.3), addressivity (cf. 6.5) and mutuality (cf. 6.6) in Kabardian.1970, V.P. Nedyalkov, “On the Typology of the Polysemy of Verbal Affixes”, in Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages, →ISBN, page 97

Forms of addressivity

pluraladdressivities

Origin of addressivity

From addressive + -ity.

Questions about addressivity

What does addressivity mean?
Addressivity means the quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor.
What part of speech is addressivity?
Addressivity is a noun.
What is the plural of addressivity?
The plural of addressivity is addressivities.

Words near addressivity in the dictionary

  1. addression
  2. addressions
  3. addressive
  4. addressives
  5. addressivities
  6. addressivity
  7. addressless
  8. addresslessness
  9. addressment
  10. addressograph
  11. addressographs

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