supportability.

1. The capacity of a claim, judgment or position to receive justified support.

2. The capacity to be physically supported or borne.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• supportability of a claim
• evidential supportability

On the page

The claim’s supportability depended on evidence absent from the summary.

Evidential supportability was assessed separately from rhetorical appeal.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: explicit explanation, scope and categorization, proof and interpretation, philosophical foundations. Disciplines: academic writing, formal reasoning, philosophy. Commonness: moderately common.