verbness

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English

Etymology

From verb +‎ -ness.

Etymology

From verb +‎ -ness.

Noun

verbness (uncountable)

  1. (grammar) Quality of being a verb.
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 170:
      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".

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