questionableness

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English

Etymology

From questionable +‎ -ness.

Noun

questionableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
      It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.