different between salvability vs saleability

English

Noun

salvability (uncountable)

1. The quality or condition of being salvable.
   • A. V. G. Allen

     In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not possible outside the communion of the visible organization.

English

Etymology

sale +? -ability.

Noun

saleability (usually uncountable, plural saleabilities)

1. The quality or state of being saleable.
   • 1901, Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, The Inheritors, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1920, Chapter 5, p. 72,^[1]

     He threw a heavy, ribbon-bound mass of matter into my lap, and recommenced writing his report upon its saleability as a book.

   • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, New York: Boni & Liveright, Chapter 48,^[2]

     The character of the land, its salability, and the likelihood of a rise in value could be judged by the property adjacent […]

   • 2002, Julian Barnes, “Not Drowning But Waving: The Case of Louise Colet” in Something to Declare, New York: Knopf Doubleday,^[3]

     […] she had used up her fame in her own lifetime, and wrote no one book which either merit or saleability could sustain in print.

Alternative forms

• salability (chiefly US)

Synonyms

• saleableness

Anagrams

• sealability