Presumability

Quick meaning: Presumability is a noun meaning The extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.

Meaning

The extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.

Example Sentences

It would seem to be the logic of the defense that, having done away with the presumability of marital aspirations on the part of the defendant toward the wife of deceased, he had thereby shown an absence of motive or ground of hostility […]

1907-1909, Henry James, Roderick Hudson/Preface The prime effect of so sustained a system, so prepared a surface, is to lead on and on; while the fascination of following resides, by the same token, in the presumability somewhere of a convenient, of a visibly-appointed stopping place.

Word Forms

• presumabilities

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include supposableness, presupposedness, presumingness, presumptuosity, presuppositionality, presumptuousness.

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