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smokability en · NOUN

Etymology

From smoke + -ability.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The quality of being smokable.
   • The driver was some distance away, leaning on his rickshaw and smoking a cigarette that looked like a dried tobacco leaf that had been rolled up to allow for easy smokability. 2011, Zubin J. Shroff, Weather Report, page 183:
   • But a junion counsel for the crown, retained probably merely to give encouragement to a novice, thinking he had discovered an opportunity to display his abilities in the manner they deserved, or moved, perhaps, with a waggish though ill-timed desire to smoke the talkative old gentleman, whose smokability had appeared so plainly in the coure of his harangue, now undertook to cross-question the elevated common-councilman on the veracity of his statements. 1829, Robert Pearse Gillies, “The T-Man”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean, page 213:
   • For example, certain pharmacologic properties — such as rapid onset and short duration of action, high potency, water solubility, injectibility, and smokability — render some medications intrinsically more abusable than others. 2007, Thomas R. Fulda, Albert I. Wertheimer, Handbook of pharmaceutical public policy, page 503:

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