Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being portable; portability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being portable; portability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
portable ;portability .
Etymologies
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Examples
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O Pork! what could campaigners do without thy fatness, thy leanness, thy saltness, thy portableness? '
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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Not to mention that his works have never been condensed into fresh pith and modern portableness by any congenial
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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Lorenço Marques, deplored the deceitfulness of riches less bitterly than their non-portableness.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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I suspect that system-makers, in general, are not of much more use, each in his own domain, than, in that of Pomona, the old women who tie cherries upon sticks, for the more convenient portableness of the same.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859
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And my disbelief's suspension was only extended when I turned the page to find that, for the exact same price, I could be the lucky owner of the TableTop Photo Studio, the first-ever product to combine the joys of still photography with the wonders of small-portableness.
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