verbness

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".

Translations

quality of being a verb

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動詞性 / 动词性 (dòngcíxìng)