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PRACTICABLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being usable
Synonyms:
practicability; practicableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("practicableness" is a kind of...):
usefulness; utility (the quality of being of practical use)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "practicableness"):
feasibility; feasibleness (the quality of being doable)
Antonym:
impracticableness (the quality of not being usable)
Derivation:
practicable (capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are)
practicable (usable for a specific purpose)
