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: a-ni-ma-te-ness. The stress falls on "ma".

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.