animateness

Other forms of animateness

plural

animatenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about animateness

What does animateness mean?

animateness means "the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life".

How many syllables are in animateness?

animateness has 5 syllables and divides as a-ni-ma-te-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for animateness?

Close synonyms include aliveness, liveness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of animateness?

The recorded antonyms are inanimateness.

Is animateness a common word?

animateness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.