English

Noun

grammaticality ‎(countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalities)

1. (linguistics) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
   • 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, Language, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 214:

     One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.

Synonyms

• grammaticalness

See also

• grammaticity

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.