dominability

English

Noun

dominability

1. The quality of being dominable (all senses).
   • 1981, T. Myers, J. Laver, J. Anderson, The Cognitive Representation of Speech, →ISBN, page 233:

     A further source of difficulty may be that in English, “S” can dominate “N" as well as the reverse; this property of mutual dominability excludes any structural way of disentangling the two categories in intermediate cases.

   • 1985, Sylvia Murphy, The complete knowledge of Sally Fry, →ISBN, page 71:

     On the rare occasions when I saw Paula, his poor little wife, mostly at university social functions, it was obvious that the success of their relationship lay in her dominability.

   • 1992, The American Voice - Issues 29-33, page 99:

     In Macbeth, which my students will begin next week, the king's horses on the night of his assassination burst out of their stalls, turning "wild in nature," the rule of their sweet dominability and loyalty broken.

   • 2006, Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr, Thomas Rieger, Thinking Utopia: Steps Into Other Worlds, →ISBN, page 132:

     What I wanted to draw attention to in my remarks is not any sort of fantasy of total dominability of mines, war regions or the world as a whole, but rather the much more far-reaching question of the relation between technical means, knowledge and history.

   • 2016, Finnur Larusson, Tuyen Trung Truong, “Algebraic subellipticity and dominability of blow-ups of affine spaces”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     For algebraic manifolds in general, we prove that strong algebraic dominability, a weakening of algebraic subellipticity, is preserved by an arbitrary blow-up with a smooth centre..