"animacy" meaning in English

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      "word": "inanimacy"
    }
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      "form": "animacies",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "animacy (usually uncountable, plural animacies)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "animate"
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
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            "Language",
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            "Sciences",
            "Society",
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        "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"
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          "living",
          "living"
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        [
          "sentient",
          "sentient"
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          "grammatical",
          "grammatical"
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          "features"
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        "(linguistics) 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.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
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      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
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    {
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
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            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "name": "English terms suffixed with -cy",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Seppo Kittilä, Katya Västi, Jussi Ylikoski, Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, page 6",
          "text": "These may differ radically in their linguistic animacy, as briefly discussed above, without this having any consequences for their biological animacy.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The state of being alive."
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      "links": [
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          "biology",
          "biology"
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          "alive"
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        "(biology) The state of being alive."
      ],
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        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "oduševénost",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "одушеве́ност"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "word": "有生性"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "word": "生命度"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "životnost"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "animéité"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "animacité"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Belebtheit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "animacidade"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oduševljónnostʹ",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "одушевлённость"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "animacy"
  ],
  "word": "animacy"
}

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      "word": "inanimacy"
    }
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    "English nouns",
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    "English uncountable nouns"
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  "etymology_text": "animate + -cy",
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "animate"
    },
    {
      "word": "inanimate"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
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        "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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        "(linguistics) 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.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
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        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
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        "en:Biology"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Seppo Kittilä, Katya Västi, Jussi Ylikoski, Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, page 6",
          "text": "These may differ radically in their linguistic animacy, as briefly discussed above, without this having any consequences for their biological animacy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state of being alive."
      ],
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          "biology"
        ],
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      ],
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      ],
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        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "oduševénost",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "одушеве́ност"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "word": "有生性"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "word": "生命度"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "životnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "animéité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "animacité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Belebtheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "animacidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oduševljónnostʹ",
      "sense": "quality of being animate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "одушевлённость"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "animacy"
  ],
  "word": "animacy"
}