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animacies

animacies is the plural of animacy.

Meaning of animacy

Noun

animacy (usually uncountable, plural animacies)

  1. (usually) The state of being animate (alive or supernaturally seeming alive).
    • These may differ radically in their linguistic animacy, as briefly discussed above, without this having any consequences for their biological animacy.2011, Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi, Jussi Ylikoski, Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, page 6
    Antonyms:
    inanimacy
  2. (usually) In some languages, the characteristic of a noun, dependent on its living or sentient nature, which affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension, etc.).

Questions about animacies

What is animacies the plural of?
Animacies is the plural of animacy.

Words near animacies in the dictionary

  1. anilox
  2. anils
  3. anima
  4. anima mundi
  5. animable
  6. animacies
  7. animacy
  8. animadversion
  9. animadversional
  10. animadversions
  11. animadversive

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