Meanings
- uncountableThe condition of being marriageable.
Three years might make a big difference to a woman's marriageability.
2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 152 more examples
The marriageability of men with physical disabilities is likely to increase somewhat as a result of the war.
1955, Family, Marriage and Parenthood, page 249At fifty-eight with no children of her own [...] she wondered about the hysteria, the violence, the damnation of pregnancy without marriageability.
1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 76Synonyms: marriageableness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition of being marriageable.
Origin
Translations
French mariabilité
- mariabilitécondition of being marriageable
German Heiratsfähigkeit
- Heiratsfähigkeitcondition of being marriageable
Italian maritabilità
- maritabilitàcondition of being marriageable
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