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adjectivality

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English

Etymology

From adjectival +‎ -ity.

Noun

adjectivality (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being adjectival.
    • 2006, Andrew Rosta, edited by Kensei Sugayama and Richard A. Hudson, Word Grammar: New Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 189:
      An adjective leave an adjectival trace, […] So if <e> is complement of wax in (66), <e> would have to share the adjectivality of wroth.
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