passibility

English

Etymology

From Latin passibilitas. Compare French passibilité.

Noun

passibility (countable and uncountable, plural passibilities)

  1. The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
    • 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC:
      the passibility of the matter of the Heavens

References

“passibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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