smokability
smokability noun: the quality of being smokable.
Noun
smokability (uncountable)
- The quality of being smokable.
- But a junion counsel for the crown, retained probably merely to give encouragement to a novice, thinking he had discovered an opportunity to display his abilities in the manner they deserved, or moved, perhaps, with a waggish though ill-timed desire to smoke the talkative old gentleman, whose...1829, Robert Pearse Gillies, “The T-Man”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean, page 213
- For example, certain pharmacologic properties — such as rapid onset and short duration of action, high potency, water solubility, injectibility, and smokability — render some medications intrinsically more abusable than others.2007, Thomas R. Fulda, Albert I. Wertheimer, Handbook of pharmaceutical public policy, page 503
Forms of smokability
| alternative form | smokeability |
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Origin of smokability
From smoke + -ability.
Questions about smokability
- What does smokability mean?
- Smokability means the quality of being smokable.
- What part of speech is smokability?
- Smokability is a noun.
Words near smokability in the dictionary
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