admissibility

English

Alternative forms

• admissability

Etymology

Etymology tree

English admissible

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Latin -itāsder.

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English admissibility

From admissible + -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ədˌmɪsəˈbɪləti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

admissibility (countable and uncountable, plural admissibilities)

1. The state or quality of being admissible or allowable.

   Synonyms: admissibleness, permissibility, permissibleness

   Antonym: inadmissibility

   • 1946 May and June, “Logging Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 151:

     Constructional costs are kept to a minimum by the admissibility of heavy grades and sharp curvature.

Translations

state or quality

• Dutch: toelaatbaarheid (nl) f
• Finnish: sallittavuus, hyväksyttävyys (fi)
• French: recevabilité (fr) f, admissibilité (fr) f
• German: Zulässigkeit f, Zulassungsfähigkeit f
• Indonesian: admisibilitas
• Malay: keterakuan
• Polish: dopuszczalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: admissibilidade f