n. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
n. The quality of being available.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Competent power; validity; efficacy.
n. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state of being available; capability of being used; power or efficacy in promoting an end in view.
n. Competent power; legal force; validity: as, the availableness of a title.
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n. the quality of being at hand when needed
Word Usage
"And lexicographic objectivity forces me to report that Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in an essay the next year, “Conservatism … goes for availableness in its candidate, not for worth….”"