saleability

plural saleabilities · alternative salability

1. uncountableusuallyThe quality or state of being saleable.

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

   1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, chapter 5, in The Inheritors, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, published 1920, page 72

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

   1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter 48, in Jennie Gerhardt, New York: Boni & Liveright

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

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

   Synonyms: saleableness