adjustability

[ uh-juhs-tuh-bil-i-tee ]
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noun
  1. the quality of being adjustable: a reclining chair with infinite adjustability.

  2. the ability, especially of a child, to adjust to new surroundings; adaptability: to observe the child's adjustability to her foster home.

Origin of adjustability

1
First recorded in 1845–50; adjust + -ability

Other words from adjustability

  • non·ad·just·a·bil·i·ty, noun

Words Nearby adjustability

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How to use adjustability in a sentence

  • Its pan like others mentioned was liable to freeze up and it also lacked in easy adjustability and sensitiveness.

    Steel Traps | A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
  • Its powers of adjustability seemed to fail before the strange and bewildering scene.

    All Around the Moon | Jules Verne
  • A most impressive example of this adjustability is seen in his manifold capacity for moral patience.

  • We have as yet the advantage in compactness and simplicity, with adjustability and adaptation to varying classes of work.