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considerability en · NOUN

Etymology

From consider + -ability.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being considerable.
    • Goodpaster suggests that being alive is the criterion of moral considerability. 1998, Clare Palmer, Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking, page 63:
    • The attribute possessed by many animals, which is usually considered relevant for moral considerability in the animal ethics literature, is sentience. 2022, Catia Faria, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature, page 10:
    • Theories of welfare and theories of considerability are, therefore, inextricably linked. 1998, Mark H. Bernstein, On Moral Considerability: An Essay on Who Morally Matters, page 16: