ACCEPTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acceptability mean? 

• ACCEPTABILITY (noun)
  The noun ACCEPTABILITY has 1 sense:

1. satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards

  Familiarity information: ACCEPTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCEPTABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

acceptability; acceptableness

Hypernyms ("acceptability" is a kind of...):

satisfactoriness (the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acceptability"):

admissibility (acceptability by virtue of being admissible)

palatability; palatableness (acceptability to the mind or feelings)

Antonym:

unacceptability (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards)

Derivation:

acceptable (worthy of acceptance or satisfactory)

acceptable (adequate for the purpose)

acceptable (meeting requirements)

acceptable (judged to be in conformity with approved usage)

 Context examples 

Evaluation of peak flow performance is subjective, and, therefore, acceptability criteria are lacking.

(Decreased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, NCI Thesaurus)

The new device uses a low-residual chlorine dose (0·3–0·5 parts per million), which increases taste acceptability and improves drinking water quality.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

So there was no explaining this sudden acceptability of his wares.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But Miss Mills, mistrusting the acceptability of her presence to the higher powers, had not yet gone; and we were all benighted in the Desert of Sahara.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)