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ADVISABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does advisability mean?
• ADVISABILITY (noun)
The noun ADVISABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being advisable
Familiarity information: ADVISABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being advisable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
they questioned the advisability of our policy
Hypernyms ("advisability" is a kind of...):
soundness; wisdom; wiseness (the quality of being prudent and sensible)
Antonym:
inadvisability (the quality of being ill-advised)
Derivation:
advisable (worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise)
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