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📄 Clear and professional 🧑‍💼 Neat appearance
presentability

presentability

6.3
Being clear and well organized so it looks professional to others
  • noun
  • /ˌprɛzənˈtæbɪlɪti/
translation icon : presentabilidad
  • Her presentability at the interview significantly contributed to her chances of getting the job.

Examples

  • The dress code at the event emphasized presentability, ensuring all attendees looked polished and appropriate.

  • The company's presentation was impressive, showcasing their attention to presentability and professionalism.

  • That night I sort of admired my husband's reluctance to acquiesce to a business arrangement, to get too terribly comfortable, to worry about presentability.

    Fiction book (1999)

How Presentable

neatness
7 1.0
presentability
6.3
messiness
4 1.6

Surface Forms

presentability singular
presentabilities plural

Morphology

presentability = presentable (transparent) = present + able + ity

Formed by adding '-ity' to 'presentable' (itself 'present' + '-able'), a regular adjective-to-noun derivation.

Etymology

Presentability comes from the word present meaning 'to show', plus the endings -able ('fit for') and -ity ('quality'). So presentability is the quality of being 'fit to be shown' — for a document or product this means how clear, organized, and professional it looks.