inanimacy

English

Etymology

inanimate +‎ -cy

Noun

inanimacy (usually uncountable, plural inanimacies)

1. (linguistics) In some languages, opposite of animacy, which affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension, etc.).

Antonyms

• animacy

Related terms

• animate
• inanimate

Translations

quality of being inanimate

• Bulgarian: неодушеве́ност f (neoduševénost)
• French: inaniméité f, inanimacité f
• German: Unbelebtheit f
• Russian: неодушевлённость f (neoduševljónnostʹ)

Anagrams

• amicyanin