ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Assimilability

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Assimilability is a noun meaning The quality or degree of being assimilable.

Meaning

The quality or degree of being assimilable.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include assimilativeness, unassimilableness, bioassimilability, unassimilability, absorbability, imitability.

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