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feasibility

feasibility

18 4.5
How possible something is to do, like a plan or idea
  • noun
  • /fiːzəˈbɪlɪti/
translation icon : viabilidad
  • The British architect Peter Cook, who's working on the project, was asked about its feasibility last year.
  • feasibility study
  • economic feasibility
  • technological feasibility

In their own words, they focus on plausibility, not feasibility.

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Examples

  • Whether policymakers expand access to such programs will be influenced by many factors, including cost, feasibility, and politics.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The Secretary has recognized that it must consider economic and technical feasibility when developing such alternatives.

    Academic text (1991)
  • So eventually I had this wonderful feasibility study but no money to create it.

  • And at that point, we're really into starting the, you know, the business feasibility study in a business plan.

  • And we are ordered to make a feasibility study.

  • Well, not so much of a plan, really, as more of a feasibility study.

  • I would have thought that a feasibility study, at the very least, was in order.

  • Despite these strengths, questions remain about the feasibility of weekly data collection for all students in a school.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Finally, the feasibility of using DIBELS with large numbers of students must be examined.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The team will assess the feasibility of the new project before proceeding with funding.

Synonyms

viability
vsfeasibility
28 4.7

How well something can work in real life

means the same idea about practical possibility and how easily it can be done
workability
vsfeasibility
1 4.8

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

adds emphasis on general possibility and how easily actions can be achieved
doability
vsfeasibility
1 4.9

How possible something is to do

stresses practical ease and implementation rather than mere possibility
achievability
vsfeasibility
1 5.1

How possible it is to reach or complete something

focuses more on practicability and how easily a plan can work
feasibleness
vsfeasibility
6.4

How possible it is to do something

focuses more on ease and putting plans into actual practice
attainability
vsfeasibility
5.5

The possibility of reaching or achieving something

emphasizes practical ease and putting ideas into practice instead of reachability
attainableness
vsfeasibility
7.7

The fact that something can be reached or achieved

stresses practicality and ease of implementation rather than mere reach
possibleness
vsfeasibility
8.2

The fact that something can happen or be true

is narrower, focusing on practical possibility and how easily plans work

Antonyms

37 5.3

A situation in which something cannot happen

A situation where something cannot be done or is not practical

How Feasible

ease
304 1.0
feasibility
18 4.5
difficulty
651 2.4
impracticability
  • Formal
9.0

Surface Forms

feasibility singular
feasibilities plural

Morphology

feasibility = feasible (transparent) = feasible + ity

Formed from the adjective 'feasible' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ity', so the meaning is directly the state or quality of being feasible.

Etymology

The word feasibility comes from feasible, which originally meant 'able to be done' and goes back to the Latin facere 'to do', the same root found in factory and fact. So, feasibility is about whether something 'can be done' or how 'doable' it is.