affordability

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English afford

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin -abilitas

Middle French -abletébor.

Middle English -ablete

English -ability

English affordability

From afford + -ability.

Noun

affordability (uncountable)

1. The extent or degree to which something is affordable, as measured by its cost relative to the amount that the purchaser is able to pay.

   First-time home buyers are feeling the squeeze of higher interest rates with mortgage affordability at its worst level for 16 years.

   • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:

     Fares would have to increase significantly beyond affordability to cover the costs of lightly used services.

   • 2024 November 19, Samantha Delouya and Julia Vargas Jones, “Here’s how mass deportations could change the housing market”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Trump has said that undocumented immigrants share the blame for America’s once-in-a-generation home affordability crisis, but the president-elect’s deportation plans may backfire, driving up the cost of homebuying even further.

2. A desirable degree of that characteristic: synonym of inexpensiveness.

Derived terms

• unaffordability

Related terms

• accessibility, attainability

Translations

the extent to which something is affordable

• Dutch: betaalbaarheid (nl) f
• Finnish: edullisuus (fi)
• German: Erschwinglichkeit f
• Hungarian: megfizethetőség
• Italian: convenienza (it) f, abbordabilità f
• Macedonian: приуштливост f (priuštlivost)
• Polish: przystępność (pl) f
• Portuguese: acessibilidade (pt) f
• Spanish: asequibilidad (es) f

See also

• cheapening