tenability

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ten·a·ble (t

-b

adj.

1. Capable of being maintained in argument; rationally defensible: a tenable theory.

2. Capable of being held against assault; defensible: a tenable outpost.

[French, from Old French, from tenir, to hold, from Latin tenre; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]

tena·bili·ty, tena·ble·ness n.

tena·bly adv.

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Noun

tenability - the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person; "he questioned the tenability of my claims"

tenableness, reasonableness

plausibility, plausibleness - apparent validity

Translations

tenability

n (Mil: of position) → Haltbarkeit f; (fig, of opinion, theory also) → Vertretbarkeit f

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