desirableness

American  

[di-zahy-er-uh-buhl-nis] / dɪˈzaɪ ər ə bəl nɪs /

noun

1. the quality, state, or fact of being desirable.

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Other Word Forms

• undesirableness noun

Example Sentences

The necessity and desirableness of country homes being thus easily demonstrable, it is of importance to know how to choose sites for them, and how to build.

From Woodward's Country Homes by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)

Heart and brain were strained and sore; if she could be still till she died, Diana felt it to be the utmost limit of desirableness.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

In almost all warm countries the luxury, almost the necessity, of arcades to protect the passengers from the sun, and the desirableness of large space in the rooms above, lead to the same construction.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

Without questioning the desirableness of this end, of considering general truths without any previous examination of particulars, we may well doubt the power of modern philosophers to attain it.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

I have stated, therefore, the only ways in which that end is attainable, without venturing even to express an opinion as to its real desirableness.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John