ambianiagiate

In fiction, and with an entity as a referent, to ambianiagiate is to evoke uncertainty concerning the entity's animacy and/or agency.

typical characteristics

seemingly threatens

expressions with the same referent

expression	part of speech	definition	linguistic basis
ambianiagiation	mass noun	the process or result of ambianiagiating
ambianiagiator	count noun

commentary

linguistic basis

ambiguousanimacyagency-iate