practicability

[ UK /pɹˌæktɪsəbˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being usable
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How To Use practicability In A Sentence

  • This plan foundered more through the sheer impracticability of the proposals than obstruction by officials.
  • The inestimable value of speech-reading and the practicability of its acquisition under favorable conditions is a matter of common experience and observation but justice to the deaf requires a recognition of the fact that speech-reading has its limitations. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
  • Of the tea and coffee it might be said as once it was said of two bad roads -- "whichever one you take you will wish you had taken the other;" the beefsteak was a problem of impracticability; and the chickens -- Fleda could not help thinking that Queechy
  • Thus in the very first attempt to repeat something heard there exists an unquestionable advance in brain development; and the first successful attempt of this kind proves not merely the augmented functional ability of the articulatory apparatus and of the sound-center, and the practicability of the impressive paths that lead from the ear to the sound-center -- it proves, above all, the establishment of intercentral routes that lead from the sound-center and the syllable-center to the motorium. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
  • During the development of Auto - Checking System for Excel, practicability is emphasized.
  • This plan foundered more through the sheer impracticability of the proposals than obstruction by officials.
  • Of the tea and coffee it might be said, as once it was said of two bad roads – "whichever one you take, you will wish you had taken the other;" the beefsteak was a problem of impracticability; and the chickens – Fleda could not help thinking, that a well-to-do rooster which she saw flapping his wings in the yard, must, in all probability, be at that very moment endeavouring to account for a sudden breach in his social circle; and if the oysters had been some very fine ladies, they could hardly have retained less recollection of their original circumstances. Queechy
  • The limitation of impracticability will apply, for example, in a situation of public disorder, where the number of searches to be conducted, or the general situation, will effectively preclude the keeping of records.
  • There cannot, in nature, in theory, nor even in common sense, be a doubt of their equal right: but disquisitions on this point will remain rather curious than important, till the speculatist can superinduce to the abstract truth of the position some proof of its practicability. Camilla
  • I have been amused at the allegations brought by certain critics against The Woman who Did that it "failed to prove" the practicability of unions such as Herminia's and Alan's. The British Barbarians
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