ponderability
English edit
Etymology edit
From ponderable + -ity. Compare French pondérabilité.
Noun edit
ponderability (countable and uncountable, plural ponderabilities)
- The fact of having a detectable weight or mass. [from 17th c.]
- 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 178:
- In an age that had accepted imponderable fluids of electricity, magnetism, and even of vitality, attachment to ponderability was not an essential.
- Amenability to consideration or thought. [from 20th c.]