speakability en · NOUN
Etymology
From speak + -ability.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being speakable.
Why, if speakability is Carson’s aim, would she have one of her characters declare, “Look at him, look how he drips unhealth — shudder object!”
2009 March 29, Brad Leithauser, “Family Feuds”, in New York Times: