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单词 animateness
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animatenessn.

Brit. /ˈanᵻmətnəs/, U.S. /ˈænəmətˌnəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: animate adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < animate adj. + -ness suffix. Compare animation n., animacy n.
1. The state or fact of being animate or animated. rare.
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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
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Animateness, the state of being animated.
1959 U. N. Ghoshal Hist. Indian Polit. Ideas xxx. 553 The physical or the psychic animateness of the State.
2006 Art Bull. (Nexis) 1 Mar. 27 For the painting to succeed, Wyeth instructs the maker to unmake himself, to rid himself of his animateness.
2. Grammar. = animacy n. 2.
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1917 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 1 51/2 Such terminal elements as show animateness or inanimateness, and singularity or plurality.
1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax ii. 78 Selectional restrictions involving such categories as animateness and abstractness.
1989 W. U. Wurzel Inflectional Morphol. & Naturalness i. 10 As a person he [sc. the speaker] stands at the top of the hierarchy of animateness.
2005 T. Tsunoda Lang. Endangerment & Lang. Revitalization viii. 93 Thus, ‘dog’, ‘platypus’, ‘bandicoot’, and ‘echidna’ are classified as Class II, and not Class I as their animateness predicts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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