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grievability

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Etymology

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From grievable +‎ -ity or grieve +‎ -ability.

Noun

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grievability (countable and uncountable, plural grievabilities)

  1. The quality of being, or extent to which someone or something is, grievable: able or worthy to be grieved.
  2. The quality of being grievable: able to form a basis for a grievance.
    • 1976, United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies, Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, page 256:
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