Retrievability

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being retrievable. uncountable

    "For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past."

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"For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past."

Etymology

From retrieve + -ability.

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