perishabilityn.
/ˌpɛrᵻʃəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəʃəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The state or quality of being perishable.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > decay or decaying > liability to
frailty1615
corruptibleness1620
corruptibilitya1680
perishableness1690
caducity1793
perishability1806
1806 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2813 Address on W. Alston's Large Landscape sent by sea to England/threnic on the perishability by accident as well as time.
1811 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life Shelley (1886) I. iv. 133 Inquiries into our intellect, its eternity or perishability.
1847 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (1857) 61 The mutability and perishability of all individual things.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) ii. vi. 215 The lady of the flowers had been long dead, and her spirit was still supposed to bear the brand of perishability.
1954 R. Davies Enthusiasms (1991) 151 A plea to mankind to recognize the perishability, and the essential triviality, of all the externals of daily life.
1995 Independent 18 Feb. 33/3 In our culture..fruits are a rarity: of limited season, of especial perishability, but also capable of perfection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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