| 单词 |
preferability |
| 释义 |
preferability|ˌprɛfərəˈbɪlɪtɪ| [f. next: see -ity.] The quality or fact of being preferable.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 482 The preferability of the less injustice to the greater would scarcely be contested. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1872) 90 Good and Evil..differ not by preferability of one to the other, but by incompatibility absolute and infinite. 1962L. J. Cohen Diversity of Meaning vi. 160 The preferability of one conceptual form to another. 1975New Yorker 21 Apr. 96/2 The manual went on to stress the actuarial preferability of drivers leading a stable life. |

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