viability

English

Etymology

From viable +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪəˈbɪlɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

viability (countable and uncountable, plural viabilities)

1. The property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed
   • 1904, Hugo DeVries, Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

     Ordinarily these altered organs are sterile, but in some instances a very small quantity of seed is produced, and when testing their viability I succeeded in raising a few plants from them.

   • 1980, Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address

     In making its grants the Endowment will increase its emphasis on techniques which stimulate support for the humanities from non-Federal sources, in order to reinforce our tradition of private philanthropy in this field, and to insure and expand the financial, viability of our cultural institutions and life.

Translations

property of being viable

• Bulgarian: жизнеспосо́бност (bg) f (žiznesposóbnost)
• Catalan: viabilitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生存能力 (shēngcún nénglì), 可行性 (zh) (kěnéngxìng)

• Czech: životaschopnost (cs) f
• Dutch: levensvatbaarheid (nl) f
• Finnish: toteuttamiskelpoisuus
• French: viabilité (fr) f
• German: Lebensfähigkeit f, Überlebensfähigkeit f, Gangbarkeit f, Viabilität (de) f, Entwicklungsfähigkeit f (biology)
• Italian: fattibilità (it) f, vitalità (it) f, vivibilità f
• Korean: 생존능력 (saengjonneungnyeok)
• Manx: yn-veaghey m
• Portuguese: viabilidade f
• Russian: жизнеспосо́бность (ru) f (žiznesposóbnostʹ)
• Spanish: viabilidad (es) f
• Swedish: livsduglighet c
• Turkish: yaşanabilirlik
• Walloon: vicansté (wa) f

References

• viability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia