accessibility

American  

[ak-ses-uh-bil-uh-tee] / ækˌsɛs əˈbɪl ə ti /

noun

• accessibilities
  plural

1. the quality of being easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, use, or understand.

   Transportation in boats, land vehicles, and eventually aircraft dramatically increased the accessibility of most locations on the planet.

   What is most immediately noticeable about the music is its accessibility.

2. the quality of being usable, reachable, obtainable, etc..

   The closeness and accessibility of the moon allow us to operate there in a way that is not possible with other space destinations.

   The Open Access policy establishes the company’s expectations relating to the public accessibility of data from research done by staff members or outside contractors.

3. the quality of being suitable or adapted for use by people with disabilities.

   Undoubtedly, tourism and travel revenues will come to depend more and more on adequate accessibility as the number of senior and disabled visitors grows in the coming decades.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unaccessibility
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• accessibilities
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of accessibility

accessibl(e) ( def. ) + -ity ( def. )

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Explanation

Accessibility is approachability. One of the things you may want to consider in a job is the accessibility of the managers. If you have a concern, are they available to help, or are they always in meetings or "at lunch"? Accessibility also refers to the quality of being available when needed. You like the accessibility of the company's customer service because you don't have to wait endlessly on hold in hopes of reaching a human being. Accessibility also refers to how easily a disabled person can negotiate part of a building or structure. The stadium had wheelchair accessibility with ramps and a special seating area.

Example Sentences

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accessibility accessibilities

Wood’s accessibility, to some critics, indicated that his work was middlebrow illustration rather than art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Michael Solomon Williams from the Campaign for Better Transport told the BBC antisocial behaviour could be a "real deterrent" to people using public transport, especially those with different accessibility needs.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Some of the appeal is the concept’s accessibility: Fans can play a version without needing to be stranded somewhere à la “Survivor” or stuck in a house for weeks like on “Big Brother.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Priorities: “My top three priorities: increase enrollment, increase accessibility to education for students and help educators feel appropriately supported and compensated.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The musical had, as the twentieth century matured, gratefully filled the vacuum created by opera’s self-imposed exile from accessibility, an attribute it had successfully maintained from the 1630s to Puccini’s last operas in the 1920s.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

There must be accessibilities I can only suspect, and accessibilities of which I know nothing.

From God the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Every day of the journey from London had released them or deprived them—she hardly knew which—of a multitude of petty comforts and easy accessibilities.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I think that would be explained perhaps by his feeling in them as an old equalitarian certain accessibilities quand même.

From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James

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