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Word Meanings - WRITABILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ability or capacity to write. Walpole.

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  • ABILITY
    The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • WRITERSHIP
    The office of a writer.
  • WRITE
    1. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs. Chaucer. So it stead you, I will write, Please you command. Shak. 2. To be regularly employed or occupied in writing,
  • CAPACITY
    Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing
  • ADORABILITY
    Adorableness.
  • AMENABILITY
    The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • EQUABILITY
    The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
  • DEFLAGRABILITY
    The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
  • COMMENSURABILITY
    The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
  • IMMEABILITY
    Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • INEVITABILITY
    Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
  • EFFUMABILITY
    The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • TAMABILITY
    The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
  • INSOCIABILITY
    The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton.
  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • INSURMOUNTABILITY
    The state or quality of being insurmountable.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • REPEALABILITY
    The quality or state of being repealable.
  • INHERITABILITY
    The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.

 

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