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Addressive vs Addressivity - What's the difference?

addressive | addressivity |

As an adjective addressive

is tending to address; directed towards the attention of another.

As a noun addressivity is

(linguistics|philosophy) the quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor.

addressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to address; directed towards the attention of another.

    • addressivity

    English

    Noun

    (addressivities)
  • (linguistics, philosophy) The quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor
  • * {{quote-book, 1970, V.P. Nedyalkov, chapter=On the Typology of the Polysemy of Verbal Affixes, Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages citation
    • , passage=Evidently, in certain languages some of these meanings may be expressed by special affixes (without a causative meaning), as, for example, the meanings of commitativity (cf. 6.3), addressivity (cf. 6.5) and mutuality (cf. 6.6) in Kabardian.}}

    Usage notes

    * In philosophical and literary contexts, this term is strongly associated with the ideas of . ** {{quote-book, i2=**:, 1998, Michael Shapiro & Marianne Shapiro, The Sense of Form in Literature and Language citation , passage=According to Bakhtin, addressivity is a constitutive factor of every utterance.}}