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Passibility

[pas-uh-buhl]

pas·si·ble

[pas-uh-buhl]
adjective
capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin passibilis. See passion, -ible

pas·si·bil·i·ty, noun
non·pas·si·ble, adjective

passable, passible.
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Passibility is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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passible (ˈpæsɪbəl)
 
adj
susceptible to emotion or suffering; able to feel
 
[C14: from Medieval Latin passibilis, from Latin patī to suffer; see passion]
 
passi'bility
 
n

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