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construability (s) (noun), construabilities (pl)
1. Having the ability to interpret the meaning of something: Tom's mother found the construability of Tom's odd answer to her question as an acceptance that he wanted to go with her to the store.
2. Capable of discovering by inference or deduction: By using her construability, Susan thought that Joe, the new boy in class, wanted to sit next to her because he wanted to be friends with her.
3. The capability to analyze the grammatical structure of or to parse language: Mrs. Smart thought that the students in her Latin class possessed the construability of examining and translating the Latin sentence by Cicero which she gave them as their homework.
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