transitiveness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: transitiveness	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
transitiveness n the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb [syn: transitivity, transitiveness] Antonym(s): intransitiveness, intransitivity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transitive \Tran"sitive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See {Transient}.] 1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] --Bacon. 2. Effected by transference of signification. By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. --Stewart. 3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. -- {Tran"sitively}, adv. -- {Tran"sitive*ness}, n.