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625 words match “ABILITY”

DAMNABILITY n.
The quality of being damnable; damnableness. Sir T. More.
DEFLAGRABILITY n.
The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
DEMISABILITY n.
The state of being demisable.
DEMONSTRABILITY n.
The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
DEPLORABILITY n.
Deplorableness. Stormonth.
DESIRABILITY n.
The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.
DESPICABILITY n.
Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.
DETERMINABILITY n.
The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.
DETESTABILITY n.
Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.
DILATABILITY n.
The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility. Ray.
DISABILITY n. 2 definitions
State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft.
DISCOVERABILITY n.
The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.
DISREPUTABILITY n.
The state of being disreputable. [R.]
DISRESPECTABILITY n.
Want of respectability. Thackeray.
DISSOCIABILITY n.
Want of sociability; unsociableness. Bp. Warburton.
DISSOLVABILITY n.
Capacity of being dissolved; solubility. Richardson.
DIVERSIFIABILITY n.
The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.
DURABILITY n.
s ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.
EDUCABILITY n.
Capability of being educated.
EFFUMABILITY n.
The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [Obs.] Boyle.
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