collocabilityn.
/ˌkɒləkəˈbɪlɪti/ Linguistics.
The capacity to form part of a collocation (sense 1a).
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collocability1950
1950 Archivum Linguisticum 2 ii. 111 The collocability of the future with tomorrow and of the past with yesterday.
1951 J. R. Firth in Ess. & Stud. IV. 123 I propose to bring forward as a technical term, meaning by ‘collocation’, and to apply the test of ‘collocability’.
1967 R. A. Waldron Sense & Sense Devel. ii. 43 Such habitual collocations..are in themselves meaningful patterns and the mere listing of them..expresses the meaning of the words in terms of their collocability, their tendency to congregate with these and other words.
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