单词 | animateness |
释义 | animatenessn. 1. The state or fact of being animate or animated. rare. 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 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1731 |
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