saleability

English

Etymology

sale +‎ -ability.

Noun

saleability (usually uncountable, plural saleabilities)

1. The quality or state of being saleable.
   • 1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, chapter 5, in The Inheritors‎^[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, published 1920, page 72:

     He threw a heavy, ribbon-bound mass of matter into my lap, and recommenced writing his report upon its saleability as a book.

   • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter 48, in Jennie Gerhardt‎^[2], New York: Boni & Liveright:

     The character of the land, its salability, and the likelihood of a rise in value could be judged by the property adjacent […]

   • 2002, Julian Barnes, “Not Drowning But Waving: The Case of Louise Colet”, in Something to Declare‎^[3], New York: Knopf Doubleday:

     […] she had used up her fame in her own lifetime, and wrote no one book which either merit or saleability could sustain in print.

Alternative forms

• salability (chiefly US)

Synonyms

• saleableness

Anagrams

• sealability