"printableness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From printable + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|printable|ness}} printable + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} printableness (uncountable)
  1. (rare) The quality of being printable. Tags: rare, uncountable Synonyms: printability Related terms: unprintableness
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          "ref": "1931 March, “A New Life of Annie Besant”, in The O. E. Library Critic, volume XX, number 8, Washington, D.C.: The O. E. Library League:",
          "text": "[Charles Webster] Leadbeater’s scandalous behavior in the case of his boy pupils; his trial and forced resignation from the Theosophical Society; Mrs. [Annie] Besant’s repudiation of him at first, and her later taking him back to her bosom because she couldn’t get along without his supposed clairvoyant faculties, these are shown up to the very limit of printableness.",
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          "text": "But all this, serious thought it is, is hardly more than a film on the surface of “The Tartarus”; immediately below it, the sexuality of the symbolism is so visible and so insistent that one wonders at the printableness of the sketch in Harper’s in the sedate year 1855.",
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