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defensible | defensibility |

As an adjective defensible

is (of an installation etc) capable of being defended against armed attack.

As a noun defensibility is

the state or quality of being defensible.

defensible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of an installation etc) capable of being defended against armed attack
  • (of an argument etc) capable of being justified

    • Synonyms

    * (capable of being defended) defendable

    defensibility

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being defensible
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    • , passage=However, there is a particular objection to the rational defensibility of moral inertia that has to do with the intelligibility of the concept of deflection in general. }}