animacy

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|animateness}} The state of being [[animate]] ([[alive]] or [[supernatural]]ly seeming alive).
2. {{lb|en|linguistics}} In some languages, the characteristic of a [[noun]], dependent on its [[living]] or [[sentient]] nature, which affects [[grammatical]] [[features]] (it can modify [[verb]]s used with the noun, affect the noun's [[declension]], etc.).

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