inflectedness

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noun

The quality of being inflected.

Opposite
uninflectedness
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Meanings

nouninflectedness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being inflected.

    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.

    2017, Nikolas Gisborne, Anrew Hippisley, Defaults in Morphological Theory, page 40

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
uninflectedness

Origin

From inflected + -ness.

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Translations

Polish odmienność
  • odmiennośćTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

inflectedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inflectedness

MLA

“inflectedness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inflectedness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inflectedness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inflectedness.

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