English

edit

Etymology

edit

From grammatical +‎ -ness.

Noun

edit

grammaticalness (uncountable)

  1. (of language) Synonym of grammaticality.
    • 1967, Lawrence E. Marks, “Judgments of Grammaticalness of Some English Sentences and Semi-Sentences”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume 80, number 2, page 196:
      There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.

References

edit
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. See "grammatical".
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996. See "grammaticality".
  NODES
Note 1