Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The state of being animate (alive or supernaturally seeming alive).

    Belebtheit

    одушевлённостьoduševljónnostʹ

  2. (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.).

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
quality of being animate:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
quality of being animate:

Origin

From animate + -cy.

From animate + -cy.

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Forms

plural: animacies
Singularanimacy

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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