modifiabilityn.
/ˌmɒdᵻfʌɪəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌmɑdəˌfaɪəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The quality of being modifiable; capacity for modification.
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the world > time > change > [noun] > change within limits, variation, or modification > capability of being modified
modifiabilitya1826
modificabilitya1834
diversifiability1873
modifiableness1873
a1826 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1980) I. 595 He [sc. Behmen] seldom attends to the distinctions (which are propaideutic merely) between the Lines of Being or modifiability.
1840 J. H. Green Vital Dynamics 57 The principle of organic modifiability and unity of composition.
1856 C. Lyell in Darwin's Life & Lett. (1887) II. 83 I foresee that many will go over to the indefinite modifiability doctrine.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xii. §101. 338 The structural modifiability of a child is greater than that of an adult man.
1908 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics I. 89/2 We recognize as a fact of life that organisms often exhibit great modifiability.
1932 Phytopathology 22 494 Not until 1929..did further evidence concerning the modifiability of infection types come to my knowledge.
1994 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicogr. 7 159 Prototypical stereotyped expressions, such as catch-phrases and proverbs, lack this kind of modifiability.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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