"retrievability" meaning in English

See retrievability in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From retrieve + -ability. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|retrieve|ability}} retrieve + -ability Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} retrievability (uncountable)
  1. The quality of being retrievable. Tags: uncountable
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "retrieve",
        "3": "ability"
      },
      "expansion": "retrieve + -ability",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From retrieve + -ability.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "retrievability (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ability",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              84,
              98
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2007 July 1, Jonathan Dee, “All the News That’s Fit to Print Out”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being retrievable."
      ],
      "id": "en-retrievability-en-noun-64BgGiD-",
      "links": [
        [
          "retrievable",
          "retrievable"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "retrievability"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "retrieve",
        "3": "ability"
      },
      "expansion": "retrieve + -ability",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From retrieve + -ability.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "retrievability (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ability",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              84,
              98
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2007 July 1, Jonathan Dee, “All the News That’s Fit to Print Out”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being retrievable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "retrievable",
          "retrievable"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "retrievability"
}

Download raw JSONL data for retrievability meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (45c4a21 and f1c2b61). 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.