acceptableness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as acceptability.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards

Etymologies

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acceptable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Years will go by performing these “treatments,” thereby desensitizing us all to their acceptableness.

    The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue? 2007

  • Years will go by performing these “treatments,” thereby desensitizing us all to their acceptableness.

    The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue? 2007

  • In endeavouring to convey to the unelect an impression of their variety and acceptableness, am I not but discharging a debt of gratitude?

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • Neither the profession of any articles of faith, nor the conformity to any outward form of worship (as has been already said), can be available to the salvation of souls, unless the truth of the one and the acceptableness of the other unto God be thoroughly believed by those that so profess and practise.

    A Letter Concerning Toleration 2002

  • If the perspiration has a disagreeable odor, no effort should be spared to free oneself from what is a serious drawback to the acceptableness of a nurse.

    Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery

  • If the perspiration has a disagreeable odor, no effort should be spared to free oneself from what is a serious drawback to the acceptableness of a nurse.

    Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery

  • If the perspiration has a disagreeable odor, no effort should be spared to free oneself from what is a serious drawback to the acceptableness of a nurse.

    Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery

  • Can any one possessed of the requisite information give him hope of the acceptableness of such a publication?

    Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 Various

  • Chintamani, the bringer of good, who by the number and variety and acceptableness of his gifts shall attain, without further trials, to the paradise of Indra: _Asirvadam_!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • Messias by a mechanical theory of retribution and doubting his sinlessness and acceptableness to God because of his outward sorrows.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

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