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The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.

The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke.

Admirableness. [R.] Johnson.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

Adorableness.

The quality of being adverbial. Earle.

The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

The state of being aërial; [R.] De Quincey.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

Same as A.

The science of aërolites.

Of or pertaining to aërolites; meteoric; as, aërolitic iron. Booth.

The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot

The quality or state of being affectible. [R.]

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.

Clittering; in a glitter.

The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness. Thackeray.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.