Desirability

de·sir·a·ble  (d-zr-bl)

adj.

1. Worth having or seeking, as by being useful, advantageous, or pleasing: a desirable job in the film industry; a home computer with many desirable features.

2. Worth doing or achieving; advisable: a desirable reform; a desirable outcome.

3. Arousing desire, especially sexual desire.

n.

A desirable person or thing.

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de·sira·bili·ty, de·sira·ble·ness n.

de·sira·bly adv.

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Desirability 

See Also: PLEASURE

1. Beckoning … like summer welcoming the swallows —Ariel Dorfman
2. Cherish like a secret —D. H. Lawrence
3. Dear as a pardon —Diane Ackerman
4. Dear as a remembered kiss after death —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
5. Dear as the mother to the son —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
6. (She was … ) desirable … like a dessert. Afterward you discarded the empty plate and forgot it —Derek Lambert
7. (Enigmatic remarks, as elusive and as) eagerly gobbled up as currants in a bun —Robert Culff

   See Also: ENTHUSIASM

8. Hates (publicity) the way Polly hates crackers —Arthur Baer
9. (Six years ago … the idea of spending an afternoon at Shea Stadium) held about as much appeal as your basic monster traffic jam —Malcom Moran, New York Times, October 11, 1986
10. Like a box of chocolates … seductive and satisfying —Publishers Weekly comment on a short novel

    The simile expanded on the box of chocolates appeal with “Readers will want to devour it in one sitting.”

11. Welcome as a corpse is to a coroner —Mark Twain
12. Welcome as a dandelion in the bosom of winter —Josh Billings
13. Welcome as a free tickets to a hit show —Anon
14. Welcome as a letter from home —Anon
15. Welcome as a visit from an old friend —Anon
16. Welcome as happy tiding after fears —Thomas Otway
17. Welcome as sunshine after rain —Anon

    A possible inspiration for this: “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain” from Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis.

18. Welcome as the best dish in the kitchen —H. G. Bohn’s Handbook of Proverbs
19. Welcome as the flowers in May —John Ray’s Proverbs
20. Welcomed it as a Bedouin in the desert welcomes the flies that are the herald of an oasis —Richard Selzer

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	desirability - the quality of being worthy of desiring desirableness goodness, good - that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization" undesirability - the quality possessed by something that should be avoided
	2.	desirability - attractiveness to the opposite sex oomph, sex appeal, desirableness attractiveness - sexual allure sultriness - the quality of expressing or arousing sexual desire; "the sultriness of her look was unmistakable"; "the sultriness of lust was in the air"

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desirability

noun

1. worth, value, benefit, profit, advantage, merit, usefulness the desirability of domestic reform

2. attractiveness, appeal, beauty, charm, good looks, fairness, allure, magnetism, loveliness, prettiness, seductiveness, gorgeousness, handsomeness, pulchritude (formal or literary), winsomeness, comeliness, engagingness, enticingness, glamorousness or glamourousness, pleasingness, prepossessingness, takingness, temptingness, winningness He had not at all overrated her desirability.

Translations

desirability [dɪˌzaɪərəˈbɪlɪtɪ] N [of plan] → conveniencia f; [of person] → atractivo m
the desirability of the plan is not in question → nadie pone en duda la conveniencia del proyecto

desirability [dɪˌzaɪərəˈbɪlɪti] n

(= attractiveness) [person] → attrait m

desirability

n → Wünschbarkeit f; they discussed the desirability of launching the product in July → sie erörterten, ob es wünschenswert sei, das Produkt im Juli auf den Markt zu bringen; in his eyes this only increased her desirability → das machte sie in seinen Augen umso begehrenswerter; in order to increase the desirability of these houses → um die Attraktivität dieser Häuser zu erhöhen

desirability [dɪˌzaɪərəˈbɪlɪtɪ] n (allure) → desiderabilità; (value) → vantaggio