Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The degree in which any one verb can take or govern objects.

    There are 3 cardinal degrees of transitivity of any one verb: intransitive, monotransitive and ditransitive.

    Transitivität

    перехо́дностьperexódnostʹ, транзити́вностьtranzitívnostʹ

    перехі́дністьperexídnistʹ, транзити́вністьtranzytývnistʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)The property of being transitive.

    The hypothetical syllogism inference rule states the transitivity of implication.

    the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the degree in which a verb can govern objects:
Русский
By meaning 1
the degree in which a verb can govern objects:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the degree in which a verb can govern objects:

Origin

From French transitivité. Morphologically transitive + -ity.

From French transitivité. Morphologically transitive + -ity.

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Forms

plural: transitivities
Singulartransitivity
Pluraltransitivities

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
transitivity — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto