resumabilityn.
/rᵻˌzjuːməˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /rəˌz(j)uməˈbɪlᵻdi/, /riˌz(j)uməˈbɪlᵻdi/ The capacity for, or possibility of, being resumed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [noun] > capacity for reversal
resiliency1777
resumability1835
memory1956
resettability1959
1835 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 4 Feb. 36 The magician has a fatal lock of hair on his head which if once cut off puts an end to the resumability of the head.
1864 H. C. Coote Neglected Fact in Eng. Hist. 28 That the resumability of possessiones by the state at will was an admitted principle of the Roman law.
1905 T. F. C. Demarest in Albany Law Apr. 113/1 The knot, which the law could not untie, was ‘cut by the sword’, when the War of 1861-65 decided against the southern theory of resumability.
1961 K. D. Naegele in T. Parsons et al. Theories of Soc. II. v. 1221/3 Part of the resumability of social activities..involves a variety of ways of replacing individual actors.
2009 N. Brook-Carter et al. in Ergonomics 52 177 For the purposes of identifying interface designs that exhibit poor resumability, the 85th percentile value is identified as most suitable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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