separability

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the capacity or property of being separated

   The separability of the two ideas suggests that each can be conceived without the other.

2. 2
   noun

   in mathematics, a property of spaces or extensions that permits a countable dense subset

   The proof establishes the separability of the metric space.

Formed from separable + -ity. Separable comes from Latin separare, 'to set apart,' from se-, 'apart,' + parare, 'to prepare or arrange.'

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