different between movable vs movability

English

Alternative forms

• moveable

Etymology

From Old French movable. Surface etymology is move +? -able

Adjective

movable (comparative more movable, superlative most movable)

1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary
   • 1902, Henry Billings Brown, The Osceola

     The owners had supplied the vessel with a movable derrick for the purpose of raising the gangways of the vessel when in port, in order to discharge cargo.

2. Changing from one time to another

Antonyms

• immovable

Derived terms

• movable letter

Translations

Noun

movable (plural movables)

1. Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.

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References

• movable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

move +? -ability

Noun

movability (countable and uncountable, plural movabilities)

1. The condition of being movable; ability or capacity to be moved.
2. The ability to move (oneself).
   • 1875 July to December, The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, volume LX, page 501:

     His progressive improvement will be best indicated by noting briefly the increase in his movability. When admitted, 15th April, he could barely put his hands to his mouth; 17th, was able to turn on his back; 20th, could partly raise himself […]

   • 2012, Maryann Phillips, Sticks and Stones, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 466:

     Helping him through months of physiotherapy, trying to help him regain his memory as well as his movability. […]

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