comfortability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From comfort + -ability (suffix forming nouns from verbs, denoting an ability, inclination, or suitability for a specified function or condition), or comfortable + -ity (suffix forming nouns from adjectives, referring to the property, quality, or state of conforming to [the meaning of the adjective]).
Base: comfort
Affixes: -ability
Inflected forms:
form: comfortabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of comfort (“contentment, ease”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I must introduce you," said Mr. Griffiths, when he called on me one morning, "to a countryman of mine, who now rivals Foneron in giving dinners; but whose luxurious extravagance bids fair soon to eclipse the unostentatious comfortability of Foneron's Friday parties."
When these elegancies and comfortabilities were suitably disposed—as, you may be sure, they were that very evening—the little reception-room was, so Mrs. Green declared, quite the 'genteelest' in Wickham.
If so many husbands arrive at conjugal peace by pleasant gradations, and wear so gracefully the imaginary insignia of matrimonial power, their philosophical demeanor is upheld doubtless by the comfortability of certain compensations, which idlers cannot appreciate.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages are attained, according to the present invention, by an air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle comprising: […] control means for setting a target outlet air temperature and a target outlet air volume of the apparatus; wherein said control means includes comfortability index setting means for setting a comfortability index which is a function of operating conditions including at least an outlet air temperature and an outlet air volume and which is an indication representing a degree of a passenger's comfort; […]
The performance time was measured and the comfortability level was asked at the end of the experiment.
The shapes of the pottery on the other hand seem to be classic forms and principally the same as the ostrogothic Kiev-forms. Accordingly it deals with a continuous adaptation to the comfortabilities of the Roman civilisation.
Body acceleration influences passengers' ride comfortability directly, and relative dynamic load of vehicle wheel affects adhesion effect between road and ground, which concerns about handling stability and driving safety.
gloss: Synonym of comfortableness (“the quality or state of being comfortable or relaxed”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [I was] smiling at the petulant activity of the tottering Cardinal de Heflin, the Bavarian minister, or the rough etourderie of the Wirtemberg envoy and the grave comfortability of the Dutch, when I heard suddenly announced, with a brilliant and numerous suite, the Austrian ambassador, the Count [Antal] Appony.
Oh! very well; but you take my advice, sir; don't you let her stop: if you do, you only study the comfortabilities of a man which has a soul as never can and never ought to be saved.
England is the native country of freedom, sound reason, manliness, magnanimity, and comfortability.
On the upside, there was [among children of older parents] a very strong sense of being very much wanted, which included the benefit of lots of time, attention, and encouragement, and a comfortability in the company of other adults.
One felt that here was a dissector carving out our foolish boasts and our smug comfortabilities into their essentials, and finding, for the most part, little or nothing …
Results of multinomial logistic regression indicated that the easiness of meeting the vacation budget and comfortability of providing credit card information for online purchases increase the probability of respondent satisfaction with the online spring break planning process, while the more time that was used to search for an online vacation the less the likelihood of achieving higher level of satisfaction.
We feel that comfortability breeds value judgments, value judgements which are used by the commercial archaeologist, the curator or even a student on a research excavation, to determine how much attention one feature gets. It is this implication, this assured value judgement, on which the serious consequence of comfortability becomes apparent. If we as archaeologists see something as 'known' and abundant, does it become of low importance? Often it does, and as a consequence less time and money spent on that feature.
Related words: comfort
comfortable
comfortableness
comfortably
comfortative
comforter
comfortful
comfort girl
comforting
comfortless
comfortlessly
comfortlessness
comfortment
comfortress
comfort woman
comfort zone
discomfort
discomfortable
discomfortableness
discomforting
discomfortingly
uncomfortable
uncomfortableness
uncomfortably
Derived words: uncomfortability
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