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verbness en · NOUN

Etymology

From verb + -ness. From verb + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Quality of being a verb.
    • The verbal patterns of foreign, especially non-Indo-European, languages contrasts so sharply with those of English that the learner virtually has no basis on which to build except a vague concept of "verbness". 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 170:

Translations (1)

cmn 動詞性 /动词性 (quality of being a verb)