determinability
determinability noun: the quality of being determinable.
Noun
determinability (countable and uncountable, plural determinabilities)
- The quality of being determinable.
- One of the wisest of uninspired men has not hesitated to declare the dog a great mystery, on account of this dawning of a moral nature unaccompanied by any the least evidence of reason, in whichever of the two senses we interpret the word—whether as the practical reason, that is, the power of...1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “On Instinct in Connection with the Understanding (in Comment on Aphorism IX)”, in Aids to Reflection
- This absolute determinability of our mind by abstractions [pg 057] is one of the cardinal facts in our human constitution. Polarizing and magnetizing us as they do, we turn towards them and from them, we seek them, hold them, hate them, bless them, just as if they were so many concrete beings.1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC
Forms of determinability
| plural | determinabilities |
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Origin of determinability
From determine + -ability.
Questions about determinability
- What does determinability mean?
- Determinability means the quality of being determinable.
- What part of speech is determinability?
- Determinability is a noun.
- What is the plural of determinability?
- The plural of determinability is determinabilities.
Words near determinability in the dictionary
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