PRACTICABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practicability mean? 

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

1. the quality of being usable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTICABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being usable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

practicability; practicableness

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

usefulness; utility (the quality of being of practical use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "practicability"):

feasibility; feasibleness (the quality of being doable)

Antonym:

impracticability (the quality of not being usable)

Derivation:

practicable (usable for a specific purpose)

 Context examples 

I know it, Meg, for I've tried it, and I seldom give advice unless I've proved its practicability.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After what had passed to wound and alienate the two families, the continuance of the Bertrams and Grants in such close neighbourhood would have been most distressing; but the absence of the latter, for some months purposely lengthened, ended very fortunately in the necessity, or at least the practicability, of a permanent removal.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)