presumability
presumability noun: the extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.
Noun
presumability (countable and uncountable, plural presumabilities)
- The extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.
- The prime effect of so sustained a system, so prepared a surface, is to lead on and on; while the fascination of following resides, by the same token, in the presumability somewhere of a convenient, of a visibly-appointed stopping place.1907-1909, Henry James, Roderick Hudson/Preface
- It would seem to be the logic of the defense that, having done away with the presumability of marital aspirations on the part of the defendant toward the wife of deceased, he had thereby shown an absence of motive or ground of hostility […]1903, Idaho. Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined […]
Forms of presumability
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Origin of presumability
From presume + -ability.
Questions about presumability
- What does presumability mean?
- Presumability means the extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.
- What part of speech is presumability?
- Presumability is a noun.
- What is the plural of presumability?
- The plural of presumability is presumabilities.
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