desireableness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Meanwhile the desireableness of an interview with Carwin again returned, and I finally resolved to seek it."
- "The lesson Naess attempts to preach is that even deep ecologists, who detest economic growth, need to be able to discuss it because those attempting to degrade the environment often refer to the necessity and desireableness of economic growth to support themselves."
- "2001, Mark S. Weiner, “Teutonic Constitutionalism,” in Foreign in a Domestic Sense, Christina Duffy Burnett, Burke Marshall edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0822326981&id=lgXaZnpwDwoC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&sig=zXqi0SVPd5Z2N_37GGOyprRl8yg “Patriotic and intelligent men may differ widely as to the desireableness of this or that acquisition,” asserted Justice Brown, “but this is solely a political question. …”"
Etymology
Etymology tree English desireable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English desireableness From desireable + -ness.