Desirability
[dɪ,zaɪərə'bɪlɪtɪ] or [dɪ,zaɪrə'bɪləti]
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.
Typist: Weldon
Examples
- From the outset, an innate recognition of system dictated the desirability and wisdom of preserving records of his experiments and inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In those days public opinion was not so alive as now to the desirability of preserving shade-trees, and of enhancing the beauty of a city instead of destroying it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The desirability of emulsions was recognized as early as 1850 by Gustave Le Gray, and in 1853 by Gaudin. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The best type of teaching bears in mind the desirability of affecting this interconnection. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Vernon