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teachability

teachability noun: the state or condition of being teachable.

Noun

teachability (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being teachable.
    • Other word classes were excluded even if they met the statistical benchmarks as they were deemed to have low teachability.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...

Origin of teachability

From teach + -ability.

Questions about teachability

What does teachability mean?
Teachability means the state or condition of being teachable.
What part of speech is teachability?
Teachability is a noun.

Words near teachability in the dictionary

  1. teach who's the boss
  2. teach-in
  3. teach-ins
  4. teach-out
  5. teach-outs
  6. teachability
  7. teachable
  8. teachable agent
  9. teachable agents
  10. teachable moment
  11. teachable moments

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