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actuability

actuability noun: capable of being acted or actuated upon.

Noun

actuability (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Capable of being acted or actuated upon.
    • As the Phyſical Idea of Body, Matter or Subſtance Material contains in it immediately of its own nature or intimate ſpecifick Eſſence real Diviſibility or Diſcerpibility, Impenetrability and mere Paſſivity or Actuability, as the proper fruit of the Eſſential Difference and intimate Form thereof...1682, Henry More, “Annotations upon the Diſcourſe of Truth”, in Annotations upon the Two Foregoing Treatises, London: […] J. Collins; S. Lounds, page 180
    • Passivity is therefore nothing but the further actuability of the substantial term ; […]1875 February, “Matter”, in The Catholic World, volume XX, number 119, page 676, column 1

Origin of actuability

From Latin āctuō + -ability.

Questions about actuability

What does actuability mean?
Actuability means capable of being acted or actuated upon.
What part of speech is actuability?
Actuability is a noun.

Words near actuability in the dictionary

  1. acts the maggot
  2. acts up
  3. acts upon
  4. ACTT
  5. ACTU
  6. actuability
  7. actual
  8. actual argument
  9. actual arguments
  10. actual bodily harm
  11. actual cash value

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