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valuability

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English

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Etymology

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From valuable +‎ -ity.

Noun

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valuability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being valuable, valuableness.
    • 2012, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, ‎Calvin O. Schrag, Foundations of Morality, Human Rights, and the Human Sciences[1], page 20:
      This valuability resides in the threefold relevance of the transactional interests of the involved individuals.
    • 1994, Marshall C. Yovits, Advances in Computers[2], page 261:
      Two factors make it possible to turn things into objects of trade: (1) appropriability, and (2) valuability (Mowshowitz, 1992a).
    • 2020, Werner Abraham, Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics[3], page 65:
      Discursive valuability holds equally well for entailments and presuppositions.