1) French word used in English 2) Logical relation 3) Mathematical relation 1) Transitiveness 
[grammar] In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects and how many such objects a verb can take. It is closely related to valency, which considers other verb arguments in addition to direct objects. The obligatory noun phrases and prepositional phrases determine how many argumen...
[n] - the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb
transitiveness noun the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb
A dyadic relation R is transitive if, whenever xRy and yRz both hold, xRz also holds. Important examples of transitive relations are the relation of identity or equality; the relation less than among whole numbers, or among rational numbers, or among real numbers, the relation precedes among instants of time (as usually taken); the relation of cla....