Definition of Preventability

1. n. The quality or state of being preventable.

Definition of Preventability

1. Noun. The condition of being preventable ¹

2. Noun. The extent to which something is preventable ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Preventability

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preventability

prevaricators
prevascular
preve
preved
prevenancy
prevene
prevened
prevenes
prevenience
preveniences
prevenient
prevenient grace
preveniently
prevening
prevent
preventability (current term)
preventable
preventative
preventatively
preventatives
prevented
preventer
preventers
preventible
preventing
preventingly
prevention
prevention is better than cure
preventional
preventions

Literary usage of Preventability

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

1. School Health Administration by Louis Win Rapeer (1913)
"preventability, AND ECONOMIC LOSS TO SCHOOLS FROM DEATHS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN Professor Fisher's ratio of preventability for childhood, with the median years ..."

2. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"ON THE preventability OF CERTAIN CASES OF CHRONIC NEPHRITIS* REGINALD FITZ Three authoritative and stimulating papers referable to chronic nephritis and its ..."

3. Unemployment Insurance in Theory and Practice by National Industrial Conference Board (1922)
"preventability OF UNEMPLOYMENT If the normal unemployment rate in the United States is, as has been indicated, so much higher than abroad, the question ..."

4. Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Its Complications, with Special Reference to by Sherman Grant Bonney (1910)
"Our present conception of the etiology and pathology of phthisis establishes conclusively its communicability, preventability, and curability. ..."

5. The Ten Laws of Health, Or, How Disease is Produced and Can be Prevented by James Rush Black (1873)
"DISEASE—WHY IT ARISES; WITH SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN REFERENCE TO ITS preventability. THE Royal College of Physicians, of London, in naming and classifying ..."

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