marriageability

English

Etymology

marriage + -ability

Noun

marriageability (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being marriageable.
    • 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 76:
      At fifty-eight with no children of her own [...] she wondered about the hysteria, the violence, the damnation of pregnancy without marriageability.
    • 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 15:
      Three years might make a big difference to a woman's marriageability.

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