Tenableness
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The state of being tenable; tenability.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Same as
tenability
.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
The quality of being
tenable
;
tenability
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person
Word Usage
"Striking it is, that even Lessing should cling to such definitions and employ all his ingenuity to prove their tenableness."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
plausibility
plausibleness
variant
tenability