"acceptability" meaning in English

See acceptability in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌæk.ˌsɛp.tə.ˈbɪl.ət.i/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav [Southern-England] Forms: acceptabilities [plural]
Etymology: acceptable + -ity Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{suffix|en|acceptable|ity}} acceptable + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} acceptability (countable and uncountable, plural acceptabilities)
  1. The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (acceptableness): ընդունելիություն (ənduneliutʿyun) (Armenian), приемливост (priemlivost) (Bulgarian), допустимост (dopustimost) (Bulgarian), acceptabilitat [feminine] (Catalan), přijatelnost [feminine] (Czech), hyväksyttävyys (Finnish), acceptabilité [feminine] (French), aceptabilidade [feminine] (Galician), Zulässigkeit [feminine] (German), elfogadhatóság (Hungarian), accettabilità [feminine] (Italian), 受容性 (juyōsei) (Japanese), kebolehterimaan (Malay), akceptowalność [feminine] (Polish), aceitabilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), acceptabilitate [feminine] (Romanian), прие́млемость (prijémlemostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), допусти́мость (dopustímostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), aceptabilidad [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-acceptability-en-noun-Y5iNVyMu Disambiguation of 'acceptableness': 86 14
  2. (military) Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms) Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Military Translations (operation plan review criterion): hyväksyttävyys (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-acceptability-en-noun-7gRdF9Th Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 31 69 Topics: government, military, politics, war Disambiguation of 'operation plan review criterion': 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: acceptableness Derived forms: nonacceptability Related terms: adequacy, feasibility

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for acceptability meaning in English (5.8kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "unacceptability"
    },
    {
      "word": "inacceptability"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nonacceptability"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*keh₂p-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "acceptable",
        "3": "ity"
      },
      "expansion": "acceptable + -ity",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "acceptable + -ity",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "acceptabilities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "acceptability (countable and uncountable, plural acceptabilities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "adequacy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "feasibility"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper",
          "text": "Acceptability of repentance",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness."
      ],
      "id": "en-acceptability-en-noun-Y5iNVyMu",
      "links": [
        [
          "acceptable",
          "acceptable"
        ],
        [
          "acceptableness",
          "acceptableness"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "ənduneliutʿyun",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "word": "ընդունելիություն"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "priemlivost",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "word": "приемливост"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "dopustimost",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "word": "допустимост"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "acceptabilitat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "přijatelnost"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "word": "hyväksyttävyys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "acceptabilité"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "aceptabilidade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Zulässigkeit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "word": "elfogadhatóság"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "accettabilità"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "juyōsei",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "word": "受容性"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "word": "kebolehterimaan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "akceptowalność"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "aceitabilidade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "acceptabilitate"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prijémlemostʹ",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "прие́млемость"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "dopustímostʹ",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "допусти́мость"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "acceptableness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "aceptabilidad"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)"
      ],
      "id": "en-acceptability-en-noun-7gRdF9Th",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "contemplated",
          "contemplated"
        ],
        [
          "manpower",
          "manpower"
        ],
        [
          "materiel",
          "materiel"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "operation plan review criterion",
          "word": "hyväksyttävyys"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæk.ˌsɛp.tə.ˈbɪl.ət.i/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "acceptableness"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acceptability"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "unacceptability"
    },
    {
      "word": "inacceptability"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English 6-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-",
    "English terms suffixed with -ity",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "IPA for English using .ˈ or .ˌ",
    "Requests for review of Telugu translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "nonacceptability"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*keh₂p-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "acceptable",
        "3": "ity"
      },
      "expansion": "acceptable + -ity",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "acceptable + -ity",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "acceptabilities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "acceptability (countable and uncountable, plural acceptabilities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "adequacy"
    },
    {
      "word": "feasibility"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper",
          "text": "Acceptability of repentance",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "acceptable",
          "acceptable"
        ],
        [
          "acceptableness",
          "acceptableness"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "contemplated",
          "contemplated"
        ],
        [
          "manpower",
          "manpower"
        ],
        [
          "materiel",
          "materiel"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæk.ˌsɛp.tə.ˈbɪl.ət.i/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-acceptability.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "acceptableness"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ənduneliutʿyun",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "word": "ընդունելիություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "priemlivost",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "word": "приемливост"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dopustimost",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "word": "допустимост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acceptabilitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "přijatelnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "word": "hyväksyttävyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acceptabilité"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aceptabilidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zulässigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "word": "elfogadhatóság"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "accettabilità"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "juyōsei",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "word": "受容性"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "word": "kebolehterimaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "akceptowalność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aceitabilidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acceptabilitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prijémlemostʹ",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "прие́млемость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dopustímostʹ",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "допусти́мость"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "acceptableness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aceptabilidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "operation plan review criterion",
      "word": "hyväksyttävyys"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acceptability"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.