operationalizability

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

operationalizable + -ity.

Noun

operationalizability (uncountable)

  1. The state or characteristic of being capable of being operationalized.
    • 1981, H. H. Lentner, “Review of Foreign Policy Behavior: The Interstate Behavior Analysis Model by Jonathan Wilkenfeld et al.”, in American Political Science Review, volume 75, number 3, page 756:
      There is a good review of the literature, using the criteria of comprehensiveness, comparability, operationalizability, and public policy relevance.
    • 2004, Heather Douglas, “The Irreducible Complexity of Objectivity”, in Synthese, volume 138, number 3, note 19, page 472:
      I do not have a non-perspectival sense of objectivity here because of its prima facie lack of operationalizability.
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