Definition of Curability

1. Noun. Capability of being cured or healed.

Exact synonyms: Curableness
Generic synonyms: Characteristic
Derivative terms: Curable, Curable
Antonyms: Incurability, Incurableness

Definition of Curability

1. n. The state of being curable; curableness.

Definition of Curability

1. Noun. The state of being curable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Curability

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curability

cupular
cupular blind sac
cupular caecum of the cochlear duct
cupular part of epitympanic recess
cupulate
cupule
cupules
cupuliferous
cupuliform
cupuliform cataract
cupulogram
cupulolithiasis
cupwise
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curabilities
curability (current term)
curable
curableness
curablenesses
curably
curacao
curacaos
curacies
curacoa
curacoas
curacy
curage
curagh
curaghs
curandera

Literary usage of Curability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"THE curability OF INSANITY: A SERIES OF STUDIES. ... of the curability of insanity, and to ascertain the results which more extended experience has since ..."

2. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"curability AND TREATMENT OF ANIMAL INSANITY. IN general terms it may be said that ... curability then is in proportion to acuteness, which again implies ..."

3. Pulmonary tuberculosis: Its Modern Prophylaxis and the Treatment in Special by Sigard Adolphus Knopf (1899)
"PATHOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE curability OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. The curability of pulmonary tuberculosis in the first and second stage is yet much ..."

4. Memoirs of Pliny Earle, M.D.: With Extracts from His Diary and Letters (1830 by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1898)
"The endeavor to ascertain even the approximate curability of insanity is accompanied by difficulties ; and the investigator is soon thrown upon the results ..."

5. On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for by Thomas Story Kirkbride (1880)
"curability OF INSANITY. INSANITY, when uncomplicated, properly and promptly treated, and having this treatment duly persevered in, may be regarded as ..."

6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1874)
"The curability of Phthisis.—Dr. Massini has published an essay on this subject in the Deutsche Archiv ... curability has not hitherto been demonstrated. ..."

7. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1844)
"And accordingly it will be found that those who entertain a confident persuasion of the ready curability of the disease, at the period already mentioned, ..."

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