viability
n.
state of being viable; ability to sustain life outside the womb; feasibility (as of a plan or a venture)
Viability
Viability means in general "capacity for survival" and is more specifically used to mean a capacity for living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions. The word is especially used in the following contexts:
pregnancy, viability refers to either:an early stage pregnancy that has a chance of reaching full-term and a live birth (as opposed to, for example, an
ectopic pregnancy); orthe shortest length of pregnancy after which a child
born prematurely has a chance of survival. Generally, this ranges from 20-27 weeks.
environmental conservation, viability indicates the ability of a conservation target to persist for many generations or over long time periods.
experimental biology, viability of
cells and
tissues refers to the extent to which those
cells and
tissues are
living.
natural selection, the fraction of individuals that survive to a given age.
economic development, viability indicates the ability of benefits to cover costs in development projects.
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viability
Noun
1. (of living things) capable of normal growth and development
(hypernym) property
(classification) living thing, animate thing
2. capable of become practical and useful
(hypernym) practicality
Viability
(n.)
The quality or state of being viable.
(n.)
The capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.
(n.)
The capacity of living after birth.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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viability
Synonyms and related words:
acceptability, achievability, actability, activation, adequacy, admissibility, agreeability, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, attainability, being alive, birth, compassability, existence, feasibility, having life, immortality, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, manageability, maneuverability, manipulatability, negotiability, operability, performability, practicability, practicality, reactivation, realizability, satisfactoriness, spriteliness, sufficiency, superability, surmountability, tenability, tolerability, unexceptionability, unobjectionability, viableness, vitality, vivacity, workability
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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