Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being preferable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness.
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- noun The state of being
preferable
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Examples
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As some of you may know, I wrote a series of articles for my original blog about the need and preferability of having multiple parties in Congress.
Think Progress » Palin Supports Creation Of Third Party: ‘That Can Be Part Of A Healthy Process’ 2010
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“On the preferability of epistemic structural realism.”
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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So the Palins are such good parents, such good Christians, such good citizens, that they could not even convince their daughter of the preferability of getting married before she got pregnant?
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant 2009
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The second runs contrary to patent observations that virtually everyone can see, such as the preferability of happiness to misery, the impermissibility of murder, etc.
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The Stoics call things whose preferability is overridden only in very rare circumstances "things according to nature."
Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
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I also find it more useful to describe the issue here as one of the presumptive preferability of naturalistic scientific realism, rather than one of falsifiability or even empirical content.
Balkinization 2007
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I think you know it, too, but because you feel so strongly about both the desirability of licensing gay marriage and the preferability of judicial restraint, you attempt to square the circle by redefining what the judgedid.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Iowa state trial court judge rules for gay marriage: 2007
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By contrast, many contemporary discussions work within a background assumption of the preferability of materialist monism.
Epiphenomenalism Robinson, William 2007
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And preferability to Bush is far too low a threshold, I think, to merit support as a candidate for president.
Obama Says He'll Use Force Unilaterally to Protect "Vital Interests" 2007
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I discuss how comparisons of E&M interactions in different spaces show preferability of three large space dimensions.
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