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Definition: Desirability |
DesirabilityNoun1. The quality of being worthy of desiring. 2. Attractiveness to the opposite sex. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "desirability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
Synonyms: DesirabilitySynonyms: desirableness (n), oomph (n), sex appeal (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: undesirability (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expedience | Noun: expedience, expediency; desirableness, desirability; Adjective: fitness; (agreement); utility; propriety; opportunism; advantage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Desirability |
| English words defined with "desirability": better ♦ egalitarianism, equalitarianism ♦ value statement ♦ worse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "desirability": decision theory ♦ SALES ENGINEER ♦ truth. (references) |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The French Government, on their part, are anxious to protect the interests of the French territories concerned, and, with that object, having their special situation in view, they bear in mind the desirability of assuring them a suitable customs regime and determining, in a manner better suited to present conditions, the methods of exchanges between these territories and the adjacent Swiss territories, while taking into account the reciprocal interests of both regions. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Emphasize the desirability for an interdisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of erectile dysfunction. (references) | |
Business | The US companies interested in entering this area have a competitive advantage because an American institute is perceived to supply high quality, state of the art education and training, hence the desirability of the students to enroll is greater than for a local institute. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | Government officials continued to make contradictory comments about the desirability of censoring the Internet. (references) |
Hong Kong | Debate continues over the desirability of privatizing RTHK. In November 2000, a lawyer sued two radio talk show hosts for defamation, and the Court of Final Appeal ordered a retrial when it ruled that the trial judge in a lower court had misdirected a jury in a way that could endanger freedom of speech. (references) | |
Economic History | Portugal | It is the special nature of the American product or service exported that determines the desirability of this support. (references) |
Women | Armenia | A study of Yerevan prostitution conducted by local journalists in 2000 showed that while some operate by telephone, the vast majority of prostitutes are what is known as streetwalkers, with their "class" and desirability defined by the area of the city in which they operate. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Desirability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Desirability" is used about 267 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 267 | 18,030 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "desirability": Social Desirability. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
desirability function | 6 |
desirability | 5 |
social desirability | 4 |
crowne desirability marlowe scale social | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "desirability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dëshirueshmëri (gratefulness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | желателност, привлекателност (allure, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, congeniality, glamor, glamour, pizzazz, prettiness, relish, seduction, sightliness, solicitation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 中意 (Desirable, Pleasingly). (various references) | |
Czech | žádostivost (appetency). (various references) | |
Finnish | toivottavuus, suotavuus. (various references) | |
German | wünschenswerterweise, erwünschtheit. (various references) | |
Greek | επιθυμητό. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כ"איות (expedience, profitability, rentability), רצי". (various references) | |
Hungarian | kívánatosság. (various references) | |
Italian | desiderabilit . (various references) | |
Manx | yeearreeoilid, miandaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esirabilityday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desejo (appetite, breathing, craving, desire, elan, fancy, fantasy, list, longing, lust, phantasy, pleasure, want, will, wish), vontade (desire, disposal, fling, heartiness, mind, pleasure, volition, way, will, willingness, wish), caráter (caliber, calibre, character, disposition, ethos, feature, fineness, mold, mould, self, stuff, touch). (various references) | |
Romanian | calitatea de a fi dezirabil. (various references) | |
Russian | желательность (advisability, wishfulness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čežnja (longing, yearning), želja (appetite, desire, fancy, want, wish). (various references) | |
Spanish | lo atractivo (neatness), conveniencia (advisability, convenience, expedience, expediency, fitness, propriety, suitability). (various references) | |
Swedish | önskvärdhet. (various references) | |
Turkish | cazibe (allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charms, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enticement, fascination, feminene charms, gilt, glamor, glamour, gravitation, it, lure, magnetism, oomph, romance, seduction, witchery), arzu edilirlik, çekicilik (affinity, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charisma, charm, comeliness, fascination, gilt, glamor, glamour, it, oomph, pull, romance, seduction, sex appeal, sexiness, witchery). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бажанність. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự đáng thèm muốn (desirableness), sự đáng khát khao (desirableness), sự đáng ao ước (desirableness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "desirability": undesirability. (additional references) | |
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"Desirability" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desirabilities, desireability, dubitability, respirability. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "desirability" (pronounced duzī'rubi"lutē) |
| 7 | -u b i" l u t ē | acceptability, accessibility, ability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, disability, irresponsibility, irritability, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, gullibility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, sensibility, stability, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, variability, viability, visibility, vulnerability. |
| 6 | -b i" l u t ē | immobility, mobility, nobility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | agility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, legality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, laity, laxity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-i-l-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: disability, rabidities. | |
-3 letters: abilities, aridities, desirably, diatribes, dietarily, edibility, sibilated, trailside. | |
-4 letters: bedrails, bestiary, biasedly, bilayers, blastier, blistery, bristled, debility, diablery, dialyser, diatribe, dilaters, driblets, idealist, ideality, lardiest, librated, librates, rabidity, redbaits, redtails, sibilate, steadily, sybarite, tribades, trilbies. | |
-5 letters: abiders, ability, airiest, albites, alibied, alibies, aridest, aridity, astilbe, astride, bailers, baileys, bailies, baiters, baldest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-i-l-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: undesirability. | |
+3 letters: disreputability. | |
+5 letters: disrespectability. | |
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