Etymology

affordant

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Today it means: Affording. Full definition →

First used 1980s–
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The story

See afford and -ant. Sense 2 is a back-formation from affordance, itself coined in 1977.

First known use, by meaning

  • 1980s– Relating to affordance.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.