Usage notes
- Viability is a false friend in Italian, and it does not mean "viabilità".
Origin
viable + -ity
viability
noun
- Whether or not a fetus is able to live on its own outside of the womb is an example of the viability of the fetus.
- Whether an idea is capable of being carried into fruition or not is an example of the viability of an idea.
Viability is defined as whether something is capable of growing, or something practical and able to be done.
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Sentence Examples
- That said, my "end hunger" case doesn't hang on the viability of GM crops.
- The increased economic viability of smaller countries.
- Viability, by which are meant fecundity, longevity and vigour, was low in average.
- A slight change in the structure or activity of a gland, by altering the internal secretion, may produce widespread alterations even in an adult organism; and we have good reason to suppose that, if compatible with viability, such minute changes would have even a greater ultimate effect if they occurred in an embryo.
Words near viability in the dictionary
- viability
- via media
- via-media
- via-negativa