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TRANSITIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does transitiveness mean?
• TRANSITIVENESS (noun)
The noun TRANSITIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb
Familiarity information: TRANSITIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The grammatical relation created by a transitive verb
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
transitiveness; transitivity
Hypernyms ("transitiveness" is a kind of...):
grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)
Derivation:
transitive (designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning)
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