tenable
adjective
capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute.
tenability
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a word derived from
tenable.
Example Sentences
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“The Carmichael Show” owes its title, its format and its tenability as mainstream sitcom to “The Cosby Show,” and the episode is completely aware of it.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2016
For months we’ve had fun doubting the tenability of Gallery Girl’s premise.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2012
But that answer is losing its political tenability, says John D. Donahue of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2012
Prout advanced this startling idea at first tentatively, in an anonymous publication; but afterwards he espoused it openly and urged its tenability.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams
It will devolve upon the specialists of the future to determine the relative tenability and fruitfulness of the Darwinian ideas in the different provinces.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
