adjectivityn.

1859 W. Wright tr. C. P. Caspari Gram. Arabic Lang. I. ii. 145 Substantivity, adjectivity.

1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 26 The forms of substantivity, adjectivity, and verbality.

1958 W. J. Ong tr. P. Ramus Ramus, Method, & Decay of Dialogue iv. 66 Adjectivity and substantivity are modes and differences of the things which are signified and which do not signify.

1977 H.-U. Boas in D. Kastovsky Perspektiven des Wortbildungs 30 The generative transformational paradigm thus reflects the speaker's syntactic and word-formation competence and makes available the descriptive machinery to formalize the notion of ‘degrees of adjectivity’.

2001 J. Laakso in O. Dahl & M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm Circum-Baltic Langs. I. 200 The adjectives [in Finnic] are more difficult to distinguish from nouns (adjectivity is often indicated by the means of derivational morphology).

1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 11/1 Miss Tytler will pardon us if we call her attention—we are going to coin a phrase—to the incessant adjectivity of her style.

1882 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 277/2 The trailing adjectivity of ‘unquestionable, unassailable, auspicious, and beneficent permanence’.

1889 Sat. Rev. 5 Jan. 22/1 The adjectivity of his description.

1894 Athenæum 14 Apr. 469/1 Mrs. Ward..has checked the reckless fluency of her ‘adjectivity’.

1914 Sewanee Rev. Apr. 230 There is little more tendency to adjectivity in his descriptions of objects than there is in his descriptions of persons.