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assimilability

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The quality or degree of being assimilable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson It would form an interesting essay [...] were all the attempts to ridicule new phrases brought together, the proportion observed of words ridiculed which have been adopted, and are now common, such as strenuous, conscious, &c, and a trial made how far any grounds can be detected, so that one might determine beforehand whether a word was invented under the conditions of assimilability to our language or not.

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