omissibilityn.
/ə(ʊ)ˌmɪsɪˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /oʊˌmɪsəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The quality or state of being omissible; (Linguistics) the property of being omissible without impairing the syntactic acceptability of a sentence or clause.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission > ability to be omitted
omissibility1957
1957 Lingua 6 51 First and second adjunct are defined in terms of a) omissibility, and b) equivalence to a corresponding passive construction.
1966 Amer. Speech 41 182 Certain self-explanatory terms have been examined with a view to their omissibility from NID 3 (Webster's Third New International Dictionary).
1971 D. Crystal Linguistics 202 The omissibility of here tomorrow.
1991 Word 42 298 The difference between object and adjunct is not accounted for by the criterion of omissibility.
1999 Bull. Symbolic Logic 5 88 We characterize omissibility of a type..in a countable Ln theory, in terms of a certain algebraic notion formulated for CAns.
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