Grammaticalness

Full definition of grammaticalness

Noun

1. (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
• 1967, Lawrence E. Marks, "Judgments of Grammaticalness of Some English Sentences and Semi-Sentences," The American Journal of Psychology, vol. 80, no. 2, p. 196:There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.

Synonyms

• grammaticality