Inflectedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being inflected. uncountable

    "Repairing the mismatch entailed giving up declension in favour of a simple number contrast where the semantic nondefaultness of plurality matches the inflectedness of the plural form."

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"Repairing the mismatch entailed giving up declension in favour of a simple number contrast where the semantic nondefaultness of plurality matches the inflectedness of the plural form."

Etymology

From inflected + -ness.

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