Home › Words › R › retrievabilityretrievabilityretrievability means the quality of being retrievable.EtymologyFrom retrieve + -ability.nounThe quality of being retrievable.e.g.“For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past.” — 2007 July 1, Jonathan Dee, “All the News That’s Fit to Print Out”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.retrievableness 88% match — retrievability vs retrievability →irretrievability 80% match — The state or quality of being irretrievable. vs retrievability →retrievable 79% match — Capable of being retrieved or recovered. vs retrievability →retrievably 77% match — Such that it can be retrieved. vs retrievability →recoverability 73% match — The property of being able to recover or be recovered. vs retrievability →irretrievableness 73% match — The state or quality of being irretrievable. vs retrievability →retrieving 69% match — An act of retrieval. vs retrievability →retrievement 67% match — retrieval vs retrievability →