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identifiedness

identifiedness noun: the quality of being identified.

Noun

identifiedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being identified.
    • Viewed syntagmatically, article-introduced nominal clusters have been judged either to refer to an already mentioned or to an already known referent or not so to refer. If they do so refer, such reference is either anaphoric or deictic, and it signals identifiedness. Bloomfield seems to equate...1968, Ruth Crymes, “Articles and Article-Introduced Nominal Clusters”, in Some Systems of Substitution Correlations in Modern American English (Janua Linguarum: Studia Memoriae Nicolai van Wijk...
    • In this case, the relative clause who is not identified is predicted to be false, matching our intuitions. Summing up the analysis, predications of identifiedness and unidentifiedness are analyzed as relations between a discourse referent and the output file introduced by the description of content.1997 August 6, Dorit Abusch, Mats Rooth, “Discourse Referent Predication”, in Epistemic NP Modifiers, →OCLC, page 9

Examples of identifiedness in a sentence

  • If they do so refer, such reference is either anaphoric or deictic, and it signals identifiedness.1968, Ruth Crymes, “Articles and Article-Introduced Nominal Clusters”, in Some Systems of Substitution Correlations in Modern American...
  • Observers have asserted that the identifiedness of the miners, the little girl, and the balloonist makes us especially willing to help them.2000, Lisa Heinzerling, “The Rights of Statistical People”, in Robin West, editor, Rights (The International Library of Essays in Law &...

Antonyms of identifiedness

Origin of identifiedness

From identified + -ness.

Questions about identifiedness

What does identifiedness mean?
Identifiedness means the quality of being identified.
How do you use identifiedness in a sentence?
If they do so refer, such reference is either anaphoric or deictic, and it signals identifiedness.
What part of speech is identifiedness?
Identifiedness is a noun.

Words near identifiedness in the dictionary

  1. identificator
  2. identificatorily
  3. identificators
  4. identificatory
  5. identified
  6. identifiedness
  7. identifiee
  8. identifiees
  9. identifier
  10. identifiers
  11. identifies

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