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TENABILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person
Example:
he questioned the tenability of my claims
Synonyms:
reasonableness; tenability; tenableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("tenability" is a kind of...):
plausibility; plausibleness (apparent validity)
Derivation:
tenable (based on sound reasoning or evidence)