Word.ws English Dictionary

addibility

addibility noun: capability of addition; capability of being added to or added together.

Noun

addibility (uncountable)

  1. Capability of addition; capability of being added to or added together.
    • […] we have no more a clear Idea of infinite Parts in Matter, then we have a clear Idea of an infinite Number, by being able still to add new Numbers to any assigned Number we have: endless Divisibility giving us no more a clear and distinct Idea of actually infinite Parts, than endless Addibility...1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 2, Chapter 28 “Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas,” p. 168
    • The generally receiv’d Notion of Eternity, as consisting in a continual addibility of successive Duration, is, I think, the very same thing as an infinite Series, and consequently liable to the same objections:1731, Edmund Law, Notes in his translation of An Essay on the Origin of Evil by William King, Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, Chapter 1, Section 3, p. 58
    Antonyms:
    inaddibility

Synonyms of addibility

Antonyms

Origin of addibility

From addible + -ity.

Questions about addibility

What does addibility mean?
Addibility means capability of addition; capability of being added to or added together.
What part of speech is addibility?
Addibility is a noun.

Words near addibility in the dictionary

  1. addes
  2. addest
  3. addeth
  4. Addey
  5. Addi
  6. addibility
  7. addible
  8. addice
  9. addices
  10. Addick
  11. Addicks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: addibility (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “addibility.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/addibility. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.