assimilability

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English

Noun

assimilability (countable and uncountable, plural assimilabilities)

  1. The quality or degree of being assimilable.
    • c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson
      It would form an interesting essay were all the attempts to ridicule new phrases brought together, the proportion observed of words ridiculed which have been adopted, and are now common, such as strenuous, conscious, &c, and a trial made how far any grounds can be detected, so that one might determine beforehand whether a word was invented under the conditions of assimilability to our language or not.

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