addibilityn.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxviii. 168 Endless Divisibility giving us no more a clear and distinct Idea of actually infinite Parts, than endless Addibility (if I may so speak) gives us a clear and distinct Idea of an actually infinite Number.

1737 S. Colliber Known God ii. 21 We can indeed, by repeated Additions and Increase in our Imaginations, form a Conception or Idea of a Potential Infinity, or of a perpertual Addibility and Endlessness of Space, as well as Number.

1777 J. Wise System I. App. 38 Though I can suppose an infinite addibility of matter, I cannot suppose an infinite divisibility of it, as some fancy they can; because infinite addibility is compatible with the ideas of matter, whereas infinite divisibility is repugnant to it.

1842 S. S. Schmucker Psychology i. i. 44 The properties of number are augmentability, or addibility, subtractibility, multiplicability, divisibility.

1962 M. Blaug Econ. Theory in Retrospect ii. 58 It seems at times to rest upon nothing else than the notion of the arithmetic addibility of individual satisfactions.

1988 L. Sawicki Verb-valency in Contemp. Polish ii. 19 The criterion of free addibility is very useful, but for cases like those mentioned above, some further clarifications will be needed.