ponderability

noun — 2 senses

ponderability

noun

Etymology From ponderable + -ity. Compare French pondérabilité.

1

The fact of having a detectable weight or mass.

  • In an age that had accepted imponderable fluids of electricity, magnetism, and even of vitality, attachment to ponderability was not an essential.2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 178:
2

Amenability to consideration or thought.

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