Addressivity

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor

    "Evidently, in certain languages some of these meanings may be expressed by special affixes (without a causative meaning), as, for example, the meanings of commitativity (cf. 6.3), addressivity (cf. 6.5) and mutuality (cf. 6.6) in Kabardian."

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"Evidently, in certain languages some of these meanings may be expressed by special affixes (without a causative meaning), as, for example, the meanings of commitativity (cf. 6.3), addressivity (cf. 6.5) and mutuality (cf. 6.6) in Kabardian."

Etymology

From addressive + -ity.

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