FEASIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feasibility mean? 

• FEASIBILITY (noun)
  The noun FEASIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being doable

  Familiarity information: FEASIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEASIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being doable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

feasibility; feasibleness

Hypernyms ("feasibility" is a kind of...):

practicability; practicableness (the quality of being usable)

Antonym:

infeasibility (the quality of not being doable)

Derivation:

feasible (capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are)

 Context examples 

A clinical research protocol generally referred to as a pilot or feasibility trial that aims to prove the concept of the new intervention in question.

(Phase IIa Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings are significant because they suggest the feasibility of a novel approach for encouraging regeneration in the mammalian retina, the light sensitive tissue at the back of the eye that dies in many blinding diseases.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

The R21 mechanism will provide investigators at all career levels with a defined level of funding adequate for the initial feasibility testing of high risk/high impact concepts and, if the concepts are viable, for the generation of experimental preliminary data.

(Exploratory/Developmental Grant for Diagnostic Cancer Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

I can recollect, indeed, to have speculated, at odd times, on the possibility of my not being taught any more, or cared for any more; and growing up to be a shabby, moody man, lounging an idle life away, about the village; as well as on the feasibility of my getting rid of this picture by going away somewhere, like the hero in a story, to seek my fortune: but these were transient visions, daydreams I sat looking at sometimes, as if they were faintly painted or written on the wall of my room, and which, as they melted away, left the wall blank again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Diagnostic Imaging Program (DIP), of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) solicits exploratory/developmental (R21) grants that articulate highly innovative research concepts in diagnostic cancer imaging to provide investigators with the initial resources required to accomplish feasibility and pilot testing of innovative ideas.

(Exploratory/Developmental Grant for Diagnostic Cancer Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)