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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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8,154 words match “LIT”

COMMUTABILITY n.

The quality of being commutable.

COMPATIBILITY n.

The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.

COMPREHENSIBILITY n.

The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.

COMPRESSIBILITY n.

The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.

CONCEPTIBILITY n.

The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. Cudworth.

CONDENSABILITY n.

Capability of being condensed.

CONDITIONALITY n.

The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.

CONDUCIBILITY n.

The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness. Bp. Wilkins.

CONDUCTIBILITY n. 2 definitions

Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity.

CONFLUXIBILITY n.

The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.

CONFORMABILITY n. 2 definitions

The state of being conformable.

CONFUSABILITY n.

Capability of being confused.

CONGENIALITY n.

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds.

The conjugal state; sexual intercourse. [R.] Milton.

CONNATURALITY n.

ticipation of the same nature; natural union or connection. [R.] A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.

CONNUBIALITY n.

The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness. Some connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B. Dickens.

CONSIMILITUDE; CONSIMILITY n.

Common resemblance. [Obs.] Aubrey.

CONSTITUTIONALITY n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.

CONSUBSTANTIALITY n.

f the same nature; coexistence in the same substance. "His [the Son's] . . . consubstantiality with the Father." Hammend.