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Formidable vs Formidability - What's the difference?

formidable | formidability |

As an adjective formidable

is causing fear, dread, awe or admiration as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive quality; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment.

As a noun formidability is

the state of being formidable.

formidable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • causing fear, dread, awe or admiration as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive quality; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment
  • difficult to defeat or overcome
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=John Percy , title=Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report , work=the Telegraph citation , page= , passage=Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable .}}

    formidability

    English

    Noun

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  • the state of being formidable
  • *{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Horace Walpole, title=Letters of Horace Walpole, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A Mackintosh has been taken, who reduces their formidability , by being sent to raise two clans, and with orders, if they would not rise, at least to give out they had risen, for that three clans would leave the Pretender, unless joined by those two. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 10, author=Roberta Smith, title=Going the Way of All Flesh, Artistically, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted platinum skull has recently indicated, Death’s formidability often encourages extravagance. Mr. Fabre covers a skull in brilliantly colored beetle shells; Mr. Van Oost casts one in silver (with a hand poking its eyes out). }}