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The quality of being friable; friableness. Locke.

Agreeable companionship; companionableness.

Governableness.

Habitableness.

Honesty; honorableness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] Chaucer. She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. Shak.

The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. [Obs.] "The illness of the weather." Locke.

Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.

The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. Heb. vi. 17.

Lack of comparison, correspondence, or suitableness; incongruity. In this region of merely intellectual notion we are at once encountered by the imparity of the object and the faculty employed upon it. I. Taylor.

The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc. Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion. South.

The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.

The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.

Intractableness; stubbornness.

The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners.

The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.

The quality of being imputable; imputableness.

Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.

The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.