Home › Words › H › helpabilityhelpabilityhelpability means the ability to be helped or to provide help.EtymologyFrom help + -ability.nounThe ability to be helped or to provide help.e.g.“Finally, when a decision to intervene is made, Claude believes that the “helpability” of the state or the society should also be given due consideration.” — 2012, Nejat Dogan, Pragmatic Liberal Approach To World Order: The Scholarship of Inis L. Claude, Jr.:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).