ponderability

English

Etymology

From ponderable +‎ -ity. Compare French pondérabilité.

Noun

ponderability (countable and uncountable, plural ponderabilities)

  1. The fact of having a detectable weight or mass. [from 17th c.]
    • 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 178:
      In an age that had accepted imponderable fluids of electricity, magnetism, and even of vitality, attachment to ponderability was not an essential.
  2. Amenability to consideration or thought. [from 20th c.]
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