desirableness
Americannoun
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the quality, state, or fact of being desirable.
Other Word Forms
- undesirableness noun
Example Sentences
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The desirableness of education is manifest, view it in what light we may, and whether as affecting individuals or communities.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira
Out of this trouble about the boots had arisen in Jem’s mind some serious misgivings as to the entire desirableness of donation visits.
From The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
Mr. Pellew was bound, in consideration of his company, to dwell upon the desirableness of keeping an even mind.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
The object was to urge the desirableness of allowing books to be borrowed from the Library, after the example of Cambridge.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
There is another point of which Authors are frequently not aware—the desirableness of their Manuscripts being written on one side only.
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