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achievability

achievability

1 5.1
How possible it is to reach or complete something
  • noun
  • /əˌtʃivəˈbɪləti/
translation icon : alcanzabilidad
  • The 50% MVPA criterion is deemed critical toward a student's exercise-related health, but there is the potential issue associated with the achievability when teaching diverse units of study in PE, in particular, when examining the breadth of units taught and the inherent PA opportunities under the concept of school-based sport.

Examples

  • What is "achievable" in a short period of time distracts from the achievability, so to speak, of the foundation it presupposes, but is not available to measure it against.

    Blog text (4)
  • Statutes of this kind typically include an "achievability" constraint as well, one that operates, in practice, in the same way as a feasibility requirement.

    Academic text (2001)
  • In such a world, it is likely that damage averaging will become increasingly more integral to the continued achievability and practicality of the mass tort system.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The steering committee reviewed the analysis and considered criteria such as how the raw data ranked in terms of impact on the education of children who are visually impaired and achievability by the year 2000, levels of consensus, and numbers of goal statements that were similar.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Part of the Tyndall mission statement was to "exert a seminal influence on the design and achievability of the long-term strategic objectives of UK and international climate policy."

    Blog text (20)
  • Others who were not so optimistic about the achievability of statehood believed that confederation before the conclusion of the talks would interject a forceful Jordan into the peace negotiations.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Like most public-administrative initiatives, it is topographically grounded (accentuating achievability), yet the plurality of hobbies somewhat erodes this attempt (appreciation of personal choice).

    Academic text (2018)
  • The team's focus on planning improved the achievability of their goals.

  • Many factors can affect the achievability of an ambitious project.

  • Recognizing the achievability of their dreams helped motivate the students.

Synonyms

viability
vsachievability
28 4.7

How well something can work in real life

focuses on mere possibility to complete rather than practical success
feasibility
vsachievability
18 4.5

How possible something is to do, like a plan or idea

is crisper, marking simple possibility rather than effort or ease
workability
vsachievability
1 4.8

How well a plan or idea can be used in real life

is about whether something can be brought about at all
doability
vsachievability
1 4.9

How possible something is to do

is broader, covering possibility beyond mere practical carrying out
attainability
vsachievability
5.5

The possibility of reaching or achieving something

is the same sense expressed with a different noun form
attainableness
vsachievability
7.7

The fact that something can be reached or achieved

is the same meaning but expressed in a different noun
feasibleness
vsachievability
6.4

How possible it is to do something

is more general, naming possibility without stressing extent or effort
realizability
vsachievability
  • US
7.0

The possibility of making a plan or idea real

is about plain possibility rather than the process of making real
possibleness
vsachievability
8.2

The fact that something can happen or be true

is narrower, referring specifically to accomplishing something rather than existence

Antonyms

37 5.3

A situation in which something cannot happen

How Achievable

feasibility
18 4.5
achievability
1 5.1
difficulty
651 2.4
impossibility
37 5.3

Surface Forms

achievability singular

Morphology

achievability = achievable (transparent) = achieve + able + ity

Standard noun formation from the adjective 'achievable' by adding '-ity'.

Etymology

Achievability comes from achieve and the ending -ability. A helpful way to remember it is that achieve means 'to reach or finish' and -ability means 'can be done', so achievability is about whether something 'can be achieved' or is possible to do.