availability

English

Etymology

From available +‎ -ity; attested since the early 1800s.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ]
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

availability (usually uncountable, plural availabilities)

(chiefly uncountable) The quality of being available.
What is your availability this week?
- 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:
  With an axleload of 16¾ tons they have a fairly wide [route] availability and they have been designed for ease of maintenance.
(countable) That which is available.
We have several availabilities.

Synonyms

(quality of being available): availableness, accessibility

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “quality of being available”): non-availability, nonavailability, unavailability

Derived terms

Translations

the quality of being available

Bulgarian: наличност (bg) f (naličnost)
Catalan: disponibilitat f
Chinese: 可及性 (kějíxìng)
Czech: dostupnost f
Danish: tilgængelighed (da) c
Dutch: beschikbaarheid (nl) f, voorhanden zijn n
Esperanto: havebleco, disponeblo
Estonian: saadavus
Finnish: saatavuus (fi)
French: disponibilité (fr) f
Galician: dispoñibilidade (gl) f
German: Vorhandensein (de) n, Verfügbarkeit (de) f
Greek: διαθεσιμότητα (el) f (diathesimótita)
Hungarian: elérhetőség (hu)
Icelandic: fáanleiki m
Indonesian: ketersediaan (id)
Italian: disponibilità (it) f, reperibilità (it) f
Japanese: 供給 (ja) (kyōkyū), 可用性 (kayo-sei)
Korean: 가용도 (gayongdo)
Lithuanian: prieinamumas (lt) m
Malay: ketersediaan, kebolehsediaan, kebolehdapatan, keperolehan
Malayalam: ലഭ്യത (labhyata)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tilgjengelighet m or f
Portuguese: disponibilidade (pt) f
Romanian: disponibilitate (ro) f
Russian: нали́чие (ru) n (nalíčije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: dostupnost (sh) f
Spanish: disponibilidad (es) f
Swahili: upatikanaji

that which is available

Dutch: beschikbaarheid (nl) f
Finnish: vaihtoehto (fi)
Indonesian: tersedianya
Malay: ketersediaan, kebolehsediaan, kebolehdapatan, keperolehan

Further reading

Route availability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“availability”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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