noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being available.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- What is your availability this week?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
availability
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
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US: /əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
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US: [əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ɾi]
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 V EY2 L AH0 B IH1 L AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: AH0 V EY2 L AH0 B IH1 L IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
That which is available.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, usually
Examples
- We have several availabilities.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the quality of being at hand when needed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: handiness, accessibility, availableness
Antonyms: unavailability
Broader terms: convenience
Narrower terms: command, print
History
Etymology
From available + -ity; attested since the early 1800s.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَوَفُّر (tawaffur) — the quality of being available
- Bulgarian: наличност (naličnost) — the quality of being available
- Catalan: disponibilitat — the quality of being available
- Chinese: 可及性 (kějíxìng) — the quality of being available
- Czech: dostupnost — the quality of being available
- Danish: tilgængelighed — the quality of being available
- Dutch: beschikbaarheid — the quality of being available
- Dutch: voorhanden zijn — the quality of being available
- Esperanto: havebleco — the quality of being available
- Esperanto: disponeblo — the quality of being available
- Estonian: saadavus — the quality of being available
- Finnish: saatavuus — the quality of being available
- French: disponibilité — the quality of being available
- Galician: dispoñibilidade — the quality of being available
- German: Vorhandensein — the quality of being available
- German: Verfügbarkeit — the quality of being available
- Greek: periphrastically — the quality of being available
- Greek: διαθεσιμότητα (diathesimótita) — the quality of being available
- Hungarian: elérhetőség — the quality of being available
- Icelandic: fáanleiki — the quality of being available
- Indonesian: ketersediaan — the quality of being available
- Italian: disponibilità — the quality of being available
- Italian: reperibilità — the quality of being available
- Japanese: 供給 (kyōkyū) — the quality of being available
- Japanese: 可用性 (kayo-sei) — the quality of being available
- Korean: 가용도 (gayongdo) — the quality of being available
- Lithuanian: prieinamumas — the quality of being available
- Malay: ketersediaan — the quality of being available
- Malay: kebolehsediaan — the quality of being available
- Malay: kebolehdapatan — the quality of being available
- Malay: keperolehan — the quality of being available
- Malayalam: ലഭ്യത (labhyata) — the quality of being available
- Norwegian Bokmål: tilgjengelighet — the quality of being available
- Portuguese: disponibilidade — the quality of being available
- Romanian: disponibilitate — the quality of being available
- Russian: нали́чие (nalíčije) — the quality of being available
- Serbo-Croatian: dostupnost — the quality of being available
- Spanish: disponibilidad — the quality of being available
- Swahili: upatikanaji — the quality of being available
- Dutch: beschikbaarheid — that which is available
- Finnish: vaihtoehto — that which is available
- Indonesian: tersedianya — that which is available
- Malay: ketersediaan — that which is available
- Malay: kebolehsediaan — that which is available
- Malay: kebolehdapatan — that which is available
- Malay: keperolehan — that which is available
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