actuability

English

Etymology

From Latin āctuō + -ability.

Noun

actuability (uncountable)

(rare) Capable of being acted or actuated upon.
- 1682, Henry More, “Annotations upon the Diſcourſe of Truth”, in Annotations upon the Two Foregoing Treatises, London: […] J. Collins; S. Lounds, page 180:
  As the Phyſical Idea of Body, Matter or Subſtance Material contains in it immediately of its own nature or intimate ſpecifick Eſſence real Diviſibility or Diſcerpibility, Impenetrability and mere Paſſivity or Actuability, as the proper fruit of the Eſſential Difference and intimate Form thereof, unalterably and immutably as in its Idea in the Divine Intellect, ſo in any Body or Material Subſtance that does exiſt : […]
- 1875 February, “Matter”, in The Catholic World, volume XX, number 119, page 676, column 1:
  Passivity is therefore nothing but the further actuability of the substantial term ; […]
- 1890, John Rickaby, “The Possibilities of Being” (chapter V), in General Metaphysics, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 175:
  Henceforth we adhere closely to the truths that possibilities differ from nothing, in the blankest sense of the word; and that they already possess a virtual existence in the power of the agents that can bring them into actuality, and in the intrinsic actuability of their own nature.
- 1920 February, George D. Herron, “The Peace of Paris and the Youth of Europe”, in The World Tomorrow, volume III, number 2, page 36, column 1:
  No nation now believes in the utility of the ideal, in the actuability of collective righteousness, or in international brotherhood as a near possibility.