defensibility

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English

Etymology

From defensible +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

Noun

defensibility (usually uncountable, plural defensibilities)

  1. The state or quality of being defensible
    • 2008 April 1, Carolina Sartorio, “Moral inertia”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI:
      However, there is a particular objection to the rational defensibility of moral inertia that has to do with the intelligibility of the concept of deflection in general.