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English
Etymology
From printable + -ness.
Noun
printableness (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality of being printable.
1927, Mark Sullivan, “The American Mind: Inherited Ideals”, in Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925 II: America Finding Herself, New York, N.Y., and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 56:About 1926, the year the “Mauve Decade” was published, the printableness of this epithet constituted one of the sharpest battles in a war of taste between old-fashioned American reticence and a truculent frankness advocated, and practised, by the younger generation, then in defiant rebellion against a good many former standards of conventionality.
1930 December 16, “The People’s Forum”, in The Hartford Courant, volume XCIII, Hartford, Conn., page 14, column 7:
1931 March, “A New Life of Annie Besant”, in The O. E. Library Critic, volume XX, number 8, Washington, D.C.: The O. E. Library League: Leadbeater’s scandalous behavior in the case of his boy pupils; his trial and forced resignation from the Theosophical Society; Mrs. Besant’s repudiation of him at first, and her later taking him back to her bosom because she couldn’t get along without his supposed clairvoyant faculties, these are shown up to the very limit of printableness.
1950, Newton Arvin, “Perilous Outpost of the Sane”, in Herman Nelville, New York, N.Y.: Compass Books, the Viking Press, published 1957, pages 237–238:But all this, serious thought it is, is hardly more than a film on the surface of “The Tartarus”; immediately below it, the sexuality of the symbolism is so visible and so insistent that one wonders at the printableness of the sketch in Harper’s in the sedate year 1855.
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