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Govern vs Governability - What's the difference?

govern | governability |

As a verb govern

is to make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

As a noun governability is

the ability to be governed.

govern

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
  • To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
    • Govern yourselves like civilized people.
    a student who could not govern his impulses.
  • To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
    • Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
  • To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
    • a valve that governs fuel intake.
  • To exercise political authority; to run a government.
  • To have or exercise a determining influence.
  • To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

    • Related terms

    * government * governance * governor * governess

    governability

    English

    Noun

  • The ability to be governed.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 1, author=Ian Fisher, title=Slim Vote of Confidence for Italy’s Leader, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“The new electoral law must guarantee governability and continuity in politics,” he told senators on Wednesday. }}