accommodableness

accommodableness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English accommodable
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English accommodableness

    From accommodable + -ness.

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkɒ.mə.də.bəl.nəs/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    Noun

    accommodableness (uncountable)

    1. (rare) The quality or condition of being accommodable
      • 1773, Catherine Talbot, Essays on Various Subjects in Prose and Verse:
        a poor Idiot, […] [who]had so little of this Accommodableness, as to be quite outrageous

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