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Animacy vs Animateness - What's the difference?

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Animacy is a related term of animateness.


As nouns the difference between animacy and animateness

is that animacy is (linguistics) the characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its living or sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension etc) while animateness is the state or condition of being animate.

animacy

English

Noun

(wikipedia animacy) (animacies)
  • (linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its living or sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension etc).

    • animateness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being animate.

    • Related terms

    * animacy * animation