animacyn.

Brit.

/ˈanᵻməsi/, U.S.

/ˈænəməsi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: animate adj., -acy suffix.

Etymology: < animate adj.: see -acy suffix. Compare animation n.

1. The quality or condition of being alive or animate; animate existence; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > condition or state of being alive

lifeOE

liveliness1540

livelihead1557

livelihood1566

animation1615

vivency1646

livingness1656

lifesomeness1674

animateness1731

animacy1871

1871 J. H. B. Browne Med. Jurispr. Insanity 165 In this sense moral notions would be coextensive with animacy.

1952 Everyday Art Q. 23 21 If Cezanne's napkins possess the structural power of mountains,..then their existence becomes not sterile but a true reality discovered, and an animacy by origin.

1989 E. L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate i. i. 6 It [sc. water] was drawing in my imagination a portrait of its mysterious powerful and endlessly vast animacy right there under the boat I was riding.

1994 T. C. Boyle Without Hero (1995) 151 A true death, the dulling of the eyes, the grip gone lax, the passing from animacy to quietus.

2. Grammar. The fact or quality of denoting a living thing; classification or ranking of words or their referents on this basis. Cf. animate adj. 3.

ΚΠ

1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics vii. 293 To the extent that gender is ‘naturally’ based, on animacy and sex, there are two distinctions involved, animate v. inanimate and feminine v. non-feminine.

1979 Language 55 85 Then higher animals such as dogs, and on down the scale of animacy until inanimate participants are reached.

1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 347 Cree animacy does not always agree with animacy distinctions in European thinking.

2005 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A 102 19251/1 Within each group, we varied the arguments' semantic roles (Agent vs. non-Agent) and animacy (human or inanimate).

Compounds

animacy hierarchy n. Grammar a ranking of words based on their degree of animacy, with those denoting human beings usually ranked highest, and those denoting inanimate objects lowest.

ΚΠ

1975 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 19 135 These hierarchies include count/mass, concrete/abstract, and feminine animate/other nouns (a conflation of the animacy hierarchy with the morphological hierarchy).

1988 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 33 222 A bypological connection may have been pointed out for them (for example the tendency for languages to conform to the animacy hierarchy in areas such as case marking, verb agreement, transitivity markings, etc.).

2004 W. Bisang in B. Kortmann Dialectol. meets Typol. 27 Although this hierarchy also makes a distinction between pronouns and common nouns, it obviously deviates from the animacy hierarchy.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	animacy
释义	animacyn. Brit. /ˈanᵻməsi/, U.S. /ˈænəməsi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: animate adj., -acy suffix. Etymology: < animate adj.: see -acy suffix. Compare animation n. 1. The quality or condition of being alive or animate; animate existence; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > condition or state of being alive lifeOE liveliness1540 livelihead1557 livelihood1566 animation1615 vivency1646 livingness1656 lifesomeness1674 animateness1731 animacy1871 1871 J. H. B. Browne Med. Jurispr. Insanity 165 In this sense moral notions would be coextensive with animacy. 1952 Everyday Art Q. 23 21 If Cezanne's napkins possess the structural power of mountains,..then their existence becomes not sterile but a true reality discovered, and an animacy by origin. 1989 E. L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate i. i. 6 It [sc. water] was drawing in my imagination a portrait of its mysterious powerful and endlessly vast animacy right there under the boat I was riding. 1994 T. C. Boyle Without Hero (1995) 151 A true death, the dulling of the eyes, the grip gone lax, the passing from animacy to quietus. 2. Grammar. The fact or quality of denoting a living thing; classification or ranking of words or their referents on this basis. Cf. animate adj. 3. ΚΠ 1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics vii. 293 To the extent that gender is ‘naturally’ based, on animacy and sex, there are two distinctions involved, animate v. inanimate and feminine v. non-feminine. 1979 Language 55 85 Then higher animals such as dogs, and on down the scale of animacy until inanimate participants are reached. 1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 347 Cree animacy does not always agree with animacy distinctions in European thinking. 2005 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A 102 19251/1 Within each group, we varied the arguments' semantic roles (Agent vs. non-Agent) and animacy (human or inanimate). Compounds animacy hierarchy n. Grammar a ranking of words based on their degree of animacy, with those denoting human beings usually ranked highest, and those denoting inanimate objects lowest. ΚΠ 1975 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 19 135 These hierarchies include count/mass, concrete/abstract, and feminine animate/other nouns (a conflation of the animacy hierarchy with the morphological hierarchy). 1988 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 33 222 A bypological connection may have been pointed out for them (for example the tendency for languages to conform to the animacy hierarchy in areas such as case marking, verb agreement, transitivity markings, etc.). 2004 W. Bisang in B. Kortmann Dialectol. meets Typol. 27 Although this hierarchy also makes a distinction between pronouns and common nouns, it obviously deviates from the animacy hierarchy. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1871
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