grammaticality

From grammatical + -ity.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˌmæt.ɪˈkæl.ɪ.ti/
• Rhymes: -ælɪti

grammaticality (countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalities)

1. (linguistics) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar (being grammatical).

   Synonym: grammaticalness

   Coordinate terms: idiomaticity, idiomaticness

   • 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, in Language, volume 39, number 2, page 214:

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

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