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TENABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tenability mean?
• TENABILITY (noun)
The noun TENABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person
Familiarity information: TENABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
reasonableness; tenability; tenableness
Context example:
he questioned the tenability of my claims
Hypernyms ("tenability" is a kind of...):
plausibility; plausibleness (apparent validity)
Derivation:
tenable (based on sound reasoning or evidence)
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