as in feasibility
suitability for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances
the desirability of immortality becomes a little less certain after some consideration of the consequences
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Recent Examples of desirability
And the ability to create desirability is the difference in our industry.
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Miles Socha, Footwear News, 27 June 2025
At the same time, the report highlights a sharp decline in the desirability of open office layouts.
—Gleb Tsipursky, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
Even luxury brands still build their desirability from word-of-mouth and reputation, not just millions spent on marketing.
—Julien Fortuit, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
But the desirability of San Diego means there is more competition for the limited good jobs and a higher cost of living.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2025
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Miles Socha, Footwear News, 27 June 2025
At the same time, the report highlights a sharp decline in the desirability of open office layouts.
—Gleb Tsipursky, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
Even luxury brands still build their desirability from word-of-mouth and reputation, not just millions spent on marketing.
—Julien Fortuit, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
But the desirability of San Diego means there is more competition for the limited good jobs and a higher cost of living.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for desirability
Recent Examples of Synonyms for desirability
Noun
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In the meantime, Chicago’s humanities professors appear largely determined to resist being evaluated in terms of expediency.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
26 Aug. 2025
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All of these things, probably, but only in the sense that almost every politician is sometimes forced to sacrifice ideals for the sake of expediency.—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Highways were often placed not for logistical necessity but for racial and economic expedience, creating literal barriers between white downtowns and Black communities.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
25 Aug. 2025
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There is less the actors can do about the script’s overreliance on Wikipedia dramaturgy, that bald expedience in which facts deemed useful to the story are only partly digested as dialogue.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Another is the definition’s usefulness in framing antisemitism as primarily a problem of the left, flourishing on campuses teeming with young people who have been indoctrinated by radical Israel-hating professors.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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To him, these forgeries were useful in convincing skeptics of fractal geometry’s usefulness.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Aug. 2025
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