preferability

English

Alternative forms

  • preferrability (rare)

Etymology

From preferable +‎ -ity or prefer +‎ -ability.

Noun

preferability (usually uncountable, plural preferabilities)

  1. The state of being preferable.
    • 1993, Michael Krausz, Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices, →ISBN, page 27:
      Again, the multiplist would hold that the grounds for separating admissible from inadmissible interpretations cannot be the same as the grounds for preferability among admissible interpretations.

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