transitivity

About 0.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The degree in which any one verb can take or govern objects.

   There are 3 cardinal degrees of transitivity of any one verb: intransitive, monotransitive and ditransitive.

2. noun The property of being transitive.

   The hypothetical syllogism inference rule states the transitivity of implication.

Similar words

control verb conjugation government transitive dependency governee possession incorporation thematic relation complexive verb-object

Often followed by

of and is in property as or are rule