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Usage vs Usability - What's the difference?

usage | usability |

As nouns the difference between usage and usability

is that usage is the manner or the amount of using; use while usability is the state or condition of being usable.

usage

English

(wikipedia usage)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The manner or the amount of using; use
  • Habit or accepted practice
  • (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
  • # Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
  • # Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.

    • Derived terms

    * usage dictionary * usage guide * usage label * usage lexicography * usage note * usage panel

    References

    * * Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.

    Anagrams

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    usability

    English

    Alternative forms

    * useability

    Noun

  • The state or condition of being usable.
  • The degree to which an object, device, software application, etc. is easy to use with no specific training.

    • Derived terms

    * reusability

    Related terms

    * usable

    See also

    * ("usability" on Wikipedia)