presumability

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noun

The extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounpresumability (countable and uncountable, plural presumabilities)

plural presumabilities

  1. countableuncountableThe extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.

    1907-1909, Henry James, Roderick Hudson/Preface The prime effect of so sustained a system, so prepared a surface, is to lead on and on; while the fascination of following resides, by the same token, in the presumability somewhere of a convenient, of a visibly-appointed stopping place.

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    It would seem to be the logic of the defense that, having done away with the presumability of marital aspirations on the part of the defendant toward the wife of deceased, he had thereby shown an absence of motive or ground of hostility […]

    1903, Idaho. Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined […]

Origin

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APA

presumability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presumability

MLA

“presumability.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presumability. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “presumability,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presumability.

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