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practicability|ˌpræktɪkəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next: see -ity. Cf. mod.F. praticabilité (Littré).]
The quality or state of being practicable; capability of being done or carried out in practice; feasibility. In pl. practicable conditions or things.
1767Smeaton (title) Report..concerning The Practicability and Expence of joining the Rivers Forth and Clyde by a Navigable Canal. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) IV. 1193 As to the existence, or at least as to the practicability of a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 191 Of all the practicabilities, which at present offer themselves to that country, the one that is most [promising] is the stability of the government of the Bourbons. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 122 He has..lost faith in the practicability of his scheme. |