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inflectedness

inflectedness noun: the quality of being inflected.

Noun

inflectedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being inflected.
    • Repairing the mismatch entailed giving up declension in favour of a simple number contrast where the semantic nondefaultness of plurality matches the inflectedness of the plural form.2017, Nikolas Gisborne, Anrew Hippisley, Defaults in Morphological Theory, page 40

Antonyms of inflectedness

Origin of inflectedness

From inflected + -ness.

Questions about inflectedness

What does inflectedness mean?
Inflectedness means the quality of being inflected.
What part of speech is inflectedness?
Inflectedness is a noun.

Words near inflectedness in the dictionary

  1. inflatory
  2. inflect
  3. inflectability
  4. inflectable
  5. inflected
  6. inflectedness
  7. inflecting
  8. inflection
  9. inflection point
  10. inflection points
  11. inflectional

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