animacy

As nouns the difference between enmity and animacy

is that enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition while 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).

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and animacy

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while 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).

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.