grammaticalness

grammaticalness

English

Etymology

grammatical +‎ -ness

Noun

grammaticalness (uncountable)

1. (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
   • 1967, Lawrence E. Marks, "Judgments of Grammaticalness of Some English Sentences and Semi-Sentences," The American Journal of Psychology, vol. 80, no. 2, p. 196:

     There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.

Synonyms

• grammaticality

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. See "grammatical".
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996. See "grammaticality".