different between acceptability vs grammaticality

English

Etymology

acceptable +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æk.?s?p.t?.?b?l.?t.i/

Noun

acceptability (countable and uncountable, plural acceptabilities)

1. The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

     Acceptability of repentance

2. (military) Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)

Synonyms

• acceptableness

Antonyms

• unacceptability
• inacceptability

Translations

See also

• adequacy
• feasibility

Further reading

• acceptability in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• acceptability in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• acceptability at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

grammatical +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.mæt.??kæl.?.ti/

Noun

grammaticality (countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalities)

1. (linguistics) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
   • 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, Language, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 214:

     One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.

Synonyms

• grammaticalness

Translations

See also

• grammaticity

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.