worshipability

English

Etymology

worship +‎ -ability

Noun

worshipability (uncountable)

1. Capability of being worshiped; worthiness of veneration.
   • 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 1, page 378:

     I commend the modern Unitarians for their candour in giving up the possible worshipability of Christ, if not very God.

   • 1988, Norman L. Geisler, Christian Apologetics, →ISBN, page 186:

     A God who is totally and completely Other lacks relatability and no doubt, at least to many, he will lack worshipability.

   • 2007, David Lamont Paulsen, Donald W. Musser, Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies, →ISBN, page 530:

     Critics of the openness model are quick to contend that any qualification of the notion of God's complete knowledge of the future diminishes his power and worshipability.

Related terms

• worshipable

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989).