Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ability or disposition to write.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Ability or capacity to write.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
writable .
Etymologies
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write + -ability
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Examples
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You see by my writability in pressing my letters on you, that my pen has still a colt's tooth left, but I never indulge the poor old child with more paper than this small-sized sheet, I do not give it enough to make a paper kite and fly abroad on wings of booksellers.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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I guess that, within the confines on the read / writability of memory that the series imposes on itself, it works and leads to interesting ways of telling tales that range from bittersweet to outright tragic.
Anime Nano! 2009
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