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n. [ Cf. F. admissibilité. ] The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Cf. F. amissibilité. See Amit. ] The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. assibilatus, p. p. of assibilare to hiss out; ad + sibilare to hiss. ] To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being cohesible. Good. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. compressibilité. ] The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corrodibility. “Corrosibility . . . answers corrosiveness.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being defended. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or capacity of being distensible. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. divisibilité. ] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n.; pl. Feasibilities [ from Feasible ] The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fusibilité. ] The quality of being fusible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Hyperæsthesia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. impassibilitas: cf. F. impassibilité. ] The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being impertransible. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of plausibility; the quality of being implausible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Impossibilities [ L. impossibilitas: cf. F. impossibilité. ] 1. The quality of being impossible; impracticability. [ 1913 Webster ]

They confound difficulty with impossibility. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An impossible thing; that which is not possible; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. [ 1913 Webster ]

Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Inability; helplessness. [ R. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Logical impossibility, a condition or statement involving contradiction or absurdity; as, that a thing can be and not be at the same time. See Principle of Contradiction, under Contradiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being impressible; susceptibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. inaccessibilité. ] The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness. “The inaccessibility of the precipice.” Bp. Butler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. inadmissibilité. ] The state or quality of being inadmissible, or not to be received. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incompréhensibilité. ] The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability. [ 1913 Webster ]

The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incompressibilité. ] The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids. [ 1913 Webster ]

The incompressibility of water is not absolute. Rees. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality or state of being incondensable.

n. The quality of being indefeasible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of not being defensible. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indivisibilité. ] The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being infeasible; impracticability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Infuse. ] Capability of being infused, poured in, or instilled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + fusibility: cf. F. infusibilité. ] Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. insensibilité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state or quality of being insensible; lack of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lack of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

Syn. -- Dullness; numbness; unfeelingness; stupidity; torpor; apathy; impassiveness; indifference. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Invisibilities [ L. invisibilitas: cf. F. invisibilité. ] The state or quality of being invisible; also, that which is invisible. “Atoms and invisibilities.” Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. irresponsabilité. ] 1. Lack of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trait causing one to act without a proper sense of responsibility; acting without giving proper weight to one's responsibilities. [ PJC ]

n. The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being ostensible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. passibilitas: cf. F. passibilité. ] The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being persuaded. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. plausibilité. ] 1. Something worthy of praise. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities. E. Vaughan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

To give any plausibility to a scheme. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything plausible or specious. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Possibilities [ F. possibilité, L. possibilitas. ] 1. The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing. “All possibility of error.” Hooker. “Latent possibilities of excellence.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate. South. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being remissible. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ties [ Cf. F. responsabilité. ] 1. The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ability to answer in payment; means of paying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being reversible. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. F. risibilité. ] The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species. [ 1913 Webster ]

A strong and obvious disposition to risibility. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sensibilities [ Cf. F. sensibilité, LL. sensibilitas. ] 1. (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural. “Sensibilities so fine!” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

This adds greatly to my sensibility. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste. [ 1913 Webster ]