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tractability

tractability noun: the state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.

Noun

tractability (countable and uncountable, plural tractabilities)

  1. The state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
    • At the expense of some realism, these simplifying assumptions afford a great deal of tractability, which allows us to make clear statements about optimal policy.2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947

Forms of tractability

pluraltractabilities

Origin of tractability

From tractable + -ity, from Latin tractabilitas.

Questions about tractability

What does tractability mean?
Tractability means the state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
What part of speech is tractability?
Tractability is a noun.
What is the plural of tractability?
The plural of tractability is tractabilities.

Words near tractability in the dictionary

  1. tract mansion
  2. tract mansions
  3. tract societies
  4. tract society
  5. tractabilities
  6. tractability
  7. tractable
  8. tractableness
  9. tractably
  10. Tractarian
  11. Tractarianism

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