preferability

English

Alternative forms

• preferrability (rare)

Etymology

From preferable +‎ -ity or prefer +‎ -ability.

Noun

preferability (usually uncountable, plural preferabilities)

1. The state of being preferable.
   • 1993, Michael Krausz, Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices, →ISBN, page 27:

     Again, the multiplist would hold that the grounds for separating admissible from inadmissible interpretations cannot be the same as the grounds for preferability among admissible interpretations.

Synonyms

• preferableness

Translations

being preferable

• Italian: preferibilità (it) f