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marriageability en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English marriage Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English marriageability From marriage + -ability.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being marriageable.
    • At fifty-eight with no children of her own [...] she wondered about the hysteria, the violence, the damnation of pregnancy without marriageability. 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 76:
    • Three years might make a big difference to a woman's marriageability. 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 15:
    • The marriageability of men with physical disabilities is likely to increase somewhat as a result of the war. 1955, Family, Marriage and Parenthood, page 249:

Synonyms

marriageableness

Translations (3)

fr mariabilité (condition of being marriageable) · it maritabilità (condition of being marriageable) · de Heiratsfähigkeit (condition of being marriageable)