transitiveness

2 definitions found

transitiveness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
     See Transient.]
     1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
        --Bacon.
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     2. Effected by transference of signification.
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              By far the greater part of the transitive or
              derivative applications of words depend on casual
              and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the
              fancy.                                --Stewart.
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     3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
        which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
        requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive
        verb, for example, he holds the book.
        [1913 Webster] -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. --
        Tran"si*tive*ness, n.
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transitiveness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  transitiveness
      n 1: the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb [syn:
           transitivity, transitiveness] [ant: intransitiveness,
           intransitivity]