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Definition of Manageableness
1. Noun. Capable of being managed or controlled.
Generic synonyms: Flexibility, Tractability, Tractableness
Derivative terms: Manageable, Manageable
Definition of Manageableness
1. Noun. The state of being manageable; tractableness; docility. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manageableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manageableness
Literary usage of Manageableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"The quality of being manageable ; manageableness. Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires
... Macaulay, Sir William Temple. manageableness (man ' aj-a-bl-nes), >i. ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1891)
"... for the reasons there given, that it combines to a large extent the manageableness
of the Graefe knife with the smooth incision of the Beers knife. ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... when an engagement within pistol-shot commenced, and continued at that distance
for nearly an hour, the advantage both in point of manageableness and ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... pliancy; facility; compliance; ductility; manageableness. FLEECY, (fle'-se) a.
Woolly; covered with wool ; having the appearance of fleeces of wool. ..."
5. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"The limited period of service to which the feudal vassals were bound by tenure,
and their general un- manageableness, caused both William the Conqueror and ..."
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