Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vertibility

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vert-ibil-i-ty
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

inconstancy, changeability

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"But ye are ſo full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite, And of melancoly mutabilite, That ye would coarte and enforce me Nothing to write, but hay the gy of thre, And I to ſuffre you lewdly to ly Of me with your language full of vilany!"
"It would be more correct to speak of “vertible choice” or “mutable choice,” in the way in which Augustine and the Sophists after him limit the glory and range of the word “free” by introducing the disparaging notion of what they call the vertibility of free choice."

Etymology

By surface analysis, vertible + -ity.

Usage

Questions

What does vertibility mean?: inconstancy, changeability
Where does vertibility come from?: By surface analysis, vertible + -ity.

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