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saleability

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Etymology

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From sale +‎ -ability.

Noun

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saleability (usually uncountable, plural saleabilities)

  1. The quality or state of being saleable.
    • 1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, chapter 5, in The Inheritors[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, published 1920, page 72:
      He threw a heavy, ribbon-bound mass of matter into my lap, and recommenced writing his report upon its saleability as a book.
    • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter 48, in Jennie Gerhardt[2], New York: Boni & Liveright:
      The character of the land, its salability, and the likelihood of a rise in value could be judged by the property adjacent []
    • 2002, Julian Barnes, “Not Drowning But Waving: The Case of Louise Colet”, in Something to Declare[3], New York: Knopf Doubleday:
      [] she had used up her fame in her own lifetime, and wrote no one book which either merit or saleability could sustain in print.

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