Definition of Intransitivity

1. Noun. The grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb.

Exact synonyms: Intransitiveness
Generic synonyms: Grammatical Relation
Derivative terms: Intransitive, Intransitive
Antonyms: Transitivity

Definition of Intransitivity

1. Noun. (grammar) The state or quality of being intransitive ¹

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Definition of Intransitivity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intransitivity

intransigeants
intransigence
intransigences
intransigency
intransigent
intransigently
intransigents
intransitive-verb
intransitive verb
intransitive verb form
intransitive verbs
intransitively
intransitiveness
intransitivise
intransitivity (current term)
intransitivize
intransmissible
intransmutability
intransmutable
intransparent
intrant
intrants
intranuclear
intranuclearly
intranucleosomal
intraobserver error
intraoccular
intraocular
intraocular fluid

Literary usage of Intransitivity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1897)
"This is impossible, since the degree of the systems of intransitivity of these sub-groups exceeds that of the other transitive constituents of G! ..."

2. The Theory of Substitutions and Its Application to Algebra by Eugen Netto (1892)
"Then at this point f(x) separates into as many factors as there are systems of intransitivity in Ga+^ But (again from §71), all the elements occur in Cr«+,. ..."

3. On Primitive Groups of Odd Order by Henry Lewis Rietz (1904)
"If G, has A systems of intransitivity, and if H, is the invariant subgroup of G, corresponding to identity in any transitive constituent T, ..."

4. Theory and Applications of Finite Groups by George Abram Miller, Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Leonard Eugene Dickson (1916)
"This will, therefore, break up into further sets of intransitivity. Continuing thus, the ultimate sets of intransitivity contain one variable each, ..."

5. Finite Collineation Groups: With an Introduction to the Theory of Groups of by Hans Frederik Blichfeldt (1917)
"Moreover, since any odd power of T permutes the two sets of intransitivity of H also, we may assume that originally such a power had been selected that the ..."

6. On Imprimitive Substitution Groups by Harry Waldo Kuhn (1904)
"It contains all the substitutions which transform it into itself without interchanging its systems of intransitivity. Hence it is contained as a head in ..."

7. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"feature of the processes concerned) from existential intransitivity (which is an a priori condition of any investigation be it in the social or natural ..."

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