generabilityn.
/ˌdʒɛn(ə)rəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛn(ə)rəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The capacity for generating or being generated; the fact or quality of being generable.
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1661 T. Salusbury Math. Coll. & Transl. I. Table (at cited word) Generability and Alterability are greater perfections in Mundane Bodies, then the Contrary Qualities.
1708 H. Dodwell Nat. Mortality Humane Souls 7 The World, from the Generability and Corruptibility of which he proves the Mortality of Humane Souls.
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. iv. 24 Is this argument decisive against the generability of talents in the human subject, after the period of birth?
1800 J. Johnstone Med. Jurisprudence p. vii The genealogy of the passions, the origin of ideas, and the generability of mind.
1949 Philos. Rev. 58 589 From the character of the data of experience,..their generability and corruptibility, their imperfectness, he demonstrates that they are not self-sufficient.
1984 T. Dartnall in C. E. Nicholson & R. Chatterjee Tropic Crucible ii. v. 103 Functionalism is not concerned with the creativity qua recursive generability of natural languages.
1996 P. Smolensky et al. Math. Perspectives Neural Networks vii. 225 We study the relation between analog generability and Turing computability.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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