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feasibility

noun

1
as in possibility

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as in usefulness

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Recent Examples of feasibility The first Chinese cargo ship traveling along the Northern Sea Route is set to dock in England this week, reflecting Beijing’s growing Arctic ambitions, though analysts cast doubt on the venture’s commercial feasibility. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026 During startup, feasibility agents extract unstructured protocol criteria and fix enrollment bottlenecks before site activation even begins. — Anshima Raj, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026 Project developers can download the HydroGenerate package to run their own feasibility checks with local flow data. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026 Unger also claimed in the FPPC complaint that the board overpaid for the land, and that an earthquake fault running through it calls into question the feasibility of building there. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 That structure draws on capabilities Lowery Company has used across its broader development work, from feasibility and site acquisition through entitlements, design coordination, construction management and operations. — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 Citing feasibility concerns, Digital Realty changed course and decided to demolish the entire building. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2026 Key Questions Still, questions remain about the cost and feasibility of producing such bespoke cancer treatments at scale. — Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 Sixth District Councilman Johnathan Duncan, who has often questioned the feasibility of the project, said the City Council was supposed to receive a third-party financial analysis report on how the city would be able to pay for the debt. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 18 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feasibility
  1. possibility
  2. usefulness
  3. viability
  4. practicality
  5. potentiality
  6. profitability
  7. reasonableness
Noun
  • Boone did not rule out that possibility when asked before Sunday’s game.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Teflon Rudy After staring down the possibility of federal prison time and financial ruin, Giuliani has appeared to make it out for the most part unscathed.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of possibility
Noun
  • In the ongoing debate about the usefulness of data centers, or the overwhelming curse of the same, both sides have their arguments.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Its software, which will run iOS 27 at launch, was also designed alongside the hardware to maximize its usefulness in both landscape and portrait modes.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of usefulness
Noun
  • The answers say more about long-term viability than any success rate, because the system that survives at scale isn’t the one that fails least, but the one that fails best.
    — Shivansh Inamdar, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The Alliance rejected accusations of greenwashing at the time, saying its mandate was to identify scalable collection, sorting and recycling solutions and that projects operating at the edge of commercial viability would not all succeed.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of viability
Noun
  • This advancement has the potential to enhance the practicality of hydrogen systems for vehicular and aerospace applications.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Striking the right balance between practicality and passion is a nearly impossible task.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of practicality
Noun
  • Work commenced on the record three months after Drewchin welcomed the arrival of her first child, Nova, a period in which she was consumed with the reality and potentialities of being a new parent.
    — Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
  • Takeovers are at once a timeless illustration of the volatility of crowds—perhaps especially adolescent crowds—and of the much newer potentialities unleashed by the internet a few decades ago.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
Definition of potentiality
Noun
  • Tan pointed to elevated rental, labor and energy costs as pressures on restaurant profitability.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Gallup’s research has found that employee engagement was consistently associated with stronger business outcomes, including productivity, profitability and retention.
    — Michael Corvini, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of profitability
Noun
  • The same absence of sensationalism and veneer of reasonableness applies to the world inside Osama’s home.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The instruction asks jurors to consider the reasonableness of their own opinions and others’ and to continue deliberating toward a verdict.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of reasonableness

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“Feasibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feasibility. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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