grammaticality

[ gruh-mat-i-kal-i-tee ]

noun

1. the state or quality of being grammatical.

Word History and Origins

Origin of grammaticality¹

First recorded in 1960–65; grammatical + -ity

Example Sentences

It’s the task of looking for mutations to the spike protein with both high grammaticality and high semantic change.

From Nautilus

In Science, the authors write, “We identified escape mutations as those that preserve viral infectivity but cause a virus to look different to the immune system, akin to word changes that preserve a sentence’s grammaticality but change its meaning.”

From Nautilus