Viability

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Viability \Vi`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
     The quality or state of being viable. Specifically: 
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     (a) (Law) The capacity of living after birth. --Bouvier.
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     (b) The capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide


         geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  viability
       n 1: (of living things) capable of normal growth and development
       2: capable of become practical and useful

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "viability":
     acceptability, achievability, actability, activation, adequacy,
     admissibility, agreeability, animal spirits, animate existence,
     animation, attainability, being alive, birth, compassability,
     existence, feasibility, having life, immortality, life, lifetime,
     liveliness, living, long life, longevity, manageability,
     maneuverability, manipulatability, negotiability, operability,
     performability, practicability, practicality, reactivation,
     realizability, satisfactoriness, spriteliness, sufficiency,
     superability, surmountability, tenability, tolerability,
     unexceptionability, unobjectionability, viableness, vitality,
     vivacity, workability
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  VIABILITY, med. jur. An aptitude to live after birth; extra uterine life. 1 
  Briand. Med. Leg. 1ere partie, c. 6, art. 2. See 2 Sav. Dr. Rom. Append. 
  III. for a learned discussion of this subject.