Printableness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being printable. rare, uncountable
"About 1926, the year the “Mauve Decade” was published, the printableness of this epithet constituted one of the sharpest battles in a war of taste between old-fashioned American reticence and a truculent frankness advocated, and practised, by the younger generation, then in defiant rebellion against a good many former standards of conventionality."
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"About 1926, the year the “Mauve Decade” was published, the printableness of this epithet constituted one of the sharpest battles in a war of taste between old-fashioned American reticence and a truculent frankness advocated, and practised, by the younger generation, then in defiant rebellion against a good many former standards of conventionality."
Etymology
From printable + -ness.
More for "printableness"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.