animacy

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animacy

noun animacies

uncountable, usually The state of being animate (alive or supernaturally seeming alive). These may differ radically in their linguistic animacy, as briefly discussed above, without this having any consequences for their biological animacy.
Similar: animateness, animation · Opposite: inanimacy
uncountable, usually In some languages, the characteristic of a noun, dependent on its living or sentient nature, which affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension, etc.).

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noun quality of being animate

한국어	생명력 saengmyeongnyeok
Português	animacidade
Français	animéité, animacité
Deutsch	Belebtheit
Русский	одушевлённость oduševljónnostʹ

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@misc{animacy_2026,
  title = {animacy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/animacy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}