presumability
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "1907-1909, Henry James, Roderick Hudson/Preface The prime effect of so sustained a system, so prepared a surface, is to lead on and on; while the fascination of following resides, by the same token, in the presumability somewhere of a convenient, of a visibly-appointed stopping place."
- "It would seem to be the logic of the defense that, having done away with the presumability of marital aspirations on the part of the defendant toward the wife of deceased, he had thereby shown an absence of motive or ground of hostility […]"