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Etymology

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From retrieve +‎ -ability.

Noun

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retrievability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being retrievable.
    • 2007 July 1, Jonathan Dee, “All the News That’s Fit to Print Out”, in New York Times[1]:
      For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past.