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TENABLENESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person

Example:

he questioned the tenability of my claims

Synonyms:

reasonableness; tenability; tenableness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("tenableness" is a kind of...):

plausibility; plausibleness (apparent validity)

Derivation:

tenable (based on sound reasoning or evidence)

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