desirability

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality or degree of being wanted, attractive, beneficial, or worth having or doing

   The committee questioned the desirability of replacing a proven system during the busiest season.

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of causing romantic or sexual attraction

   The novel examines how wealth can alter a person's perceived desirability.

Formed from desirable + -ity. Desirable combines desire, borrowed through Old French from Latin desiderare ("to long for or desire"), with -able; the noun therefore denotes the state or degree of being desirable.

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