What is "transitiveness"

Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]

1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
   --Bacon.

2. Effected by transference of signification.

   By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
   --Stewart.

3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. [1913 Webster] -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. -- Tran"si*tive*ness, n.

n. The quality of being transitive.

n. the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb [syn: transitivity] [ant: intransitivity]