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printableness

printableness noun: the quality of being printable.

Noun

printableness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being printable.
    • About 1926, the year the “Mauve Decade” was published, the printableness of this epithet constituted one of the sharpest battles in a war of taste between old-fashioned American reticence and a truculent frankness advocated, and practised, by the younger generation, then in defiant rebellion...1927, Mark Sullivan, “The American Mind: Inherited Ideals”, in Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925 II: America Finding Herself, New York, N.Y.; and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 56
    • The Limit of Printableness / (Charleston News & Courier) / “Replying to [Kenneth] McKellar, Senator [Hiram] Bingham [III] said that many of the things the Tennessean had ‘implied and insinuated were unworthy to go into the Congressional Record.” Associated Press dispatch.1930 December 16, “The People’s Forum”, in The Hartford Courant, volume XCIII, Hartford, Conn., page 14, column 7
    Synonyms:
    printability

Synonyms of printableness

Origin of printableness

From printable + -ness.

Questions about printableness

What does printableness mean?
Printableness means the quality of being printable.
What part of speech is printableness?
Printableness is a noun.

Words near printableness in the dictionary

  1. print-wheels
  2. print-worthy
  3. printabilities
  4. printability
  5. printable
  6. printableness
  7. printables
  8. printanier
  9. printaniers
  10. printanière
  11. printbed

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