desirableness

American  

[di-zahy-er-uh-buhl-nis] / dɪˈzaɪ ər ə bəl nɪs /

noun

1. the quality, state, or fact of being desirable.

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Other Word Forms

• undesirableness noun

Example Sentences

A penitentiary may be described as a place of punishment and reward; and under the system proposed the difference in desirableness between a sentence and an appointment would be virtually effaced.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

In almost all warm countries the luxury, almost the necessity, of arcades to protect the passengers from the sun, and the desirableness of large space in the rooms above, lead to the same construction.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

Speeding hither and thither by rail, her eye caught beauty and desirableness in a flash; the settler stirred in her blood, and she longed to possess and to develop.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

The desirableness of education is manifest, view it in what light we may, and whether as affecting individuals or communities.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira

The moral condition of man, his seeing no desirableness in the object presented to him by the Gospel, Mr. Erskine shews, at great length, to be the grand obstacle to his enjoying it.

From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by Scott, A. J. (Alexander John)