questionableness

noun

questionableness

noun

Etymology From questionable + -ness.

1

The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.

  • It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:

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