Timeline for Word meaning "having the power to both create and destroy something"
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| Mar 2, 2023 at 15:38 | comment | added | Lawrence | @Greybeard English is a productive language. Adding -able turns the verb into an adjective (see this wiktionary entry), and adding -ability turns the verb into a noun. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 21:15 | comment | added | Greybeard | That's reify, which is fine: it's "reifiability" that worries me. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 18:18 | comment | added | Lawrence | @Greybeard. Yes, my ODO link is an instance of this "seen in a dictionary" (ODO has been replaced by dictionary.com since I posted my answer). It's also used "in the wild" quite a bit in some branches of computing. See, for example, page 299 of the volume "Interactive Theorem Proving". | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 17:50 | comment | added | Greybeard | Has this word ever been seen in a dictionary or in the wild? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 1, 2016 at 15:49 | vote | accept | sirlark | ||
| May 1, 2016 at 13:55 | history | answered | Lawrence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |