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Noun: intransitiveness  in'tran(t)-su-tiv-nus or in'tran-zu-tiv-nus
  1. The grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb
    "The intransitiveness of 'sleep' means it doesn't take a direct object";
    - intransitivity

Type of: grammatical relation

Antonym: transitiveness