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desirability

desirability noun: the state of being desirable.

Noun

desirability (countable and uncountable, plural desirabilities)

  1. The state of being desirable.
    • Many a RP podcaster, blogger, and Youtuber^([sic]) have fired up their livesteaming software, to arrogantly beat their chests, boasting that men reach their “peak SMV” (“Sexual Marketplace Value”, or desirability to women) in their late 30s.2024 February 1, “When Men’s Dating Options Hit The Wall”, in Salt Lake Single Guy, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2024
    Synonyms:
    appetibility

desirability meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Malay

desirability in Urdu

دل پسندی, مرغوبیت

desirability in Bengali

কাঙ্ক্ষিত হওয়ার অবস্থা

desirability in Malayalam

അഭിലണീയത, കാമ്യത

desirability in Malay

state of being desirable
kebolehinginan

Examples of desirability in a sentence

  • In showing up and becoming visible as queercrip, we intentionally shift the frame of desirability.
  • He reminded Cohen about "the desirability" of omitting his name "when discussing LSD with AAs".
  • The desirability of a corpus of e-mail data is stressed by Johansson, and also Yates.

All 11 example sentences with desirability

Synonyms of desirability

Antonyms

Forms of desirability

pluraldesirabilities

Origin of desirability

Morphologically desirable + -ity and desire + -ability.

Questions about desirability

What does desirability mean?
Desirability means the state of being desirable.
What is desirability in Urdu?
Desirability in Urdu is دل پسندی, مرغوبیت. See Desirability meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is desirability?
Desirability is a noun.
What is the plural of desirability?
The plural of desirability is desirabilities.

Words near desirability in the dictionary

  1. desipramines
  2. Desir
  3. desir'd
  4. desirabilia
  5. desirabilities
  6. desirability
  7. desirable
  8. desirableness
  9. desirablenesses
  10. desirables
  11. desirably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: desirability (page history and authors); desirability (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); desirability (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); desirability (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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