availability

English

Etymology

From available +‎ -ity; attested since the early 1800s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

availability (usually uncountable, plural availabilities)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The quality of being available.

   What is your availability this week?

   • 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:

     With an axleload of 16¾ tons they have a fairly wide [route] availability and they have been designed for ease of maintenance.

2. (countable) That which is available.

   We have several availabilities.

Synonyms

• (quality of being available): availableness, accessibility

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “quality of being available”): non-availability, nonavailability, unavailability

Derived terms

• availability bias
• availability cascade
• availability heuristic
• bioavailability
• general availability
• geoavailability
• high-availability
• interavailability
• low-availability
• oral availability
• phytoavailability
• press availability

 

Translations

the quality of being available

Bulgarian: наличност (bg) f (naličnost) Catalan: disponibilitat f Chinese: 可及性 (kějíxìng) Czech: dostupnost f Danish: tilgængelighed (da) c Dutch: beschikbaarheid (nl) f, voorhanden zijn n Esperanto: havebleco, disponeblo Estonian: saadavus Finnish: saatavuus (fi) French: disponibilité (fr) f Galician: dispoñibilidade (gl) f German: Vorhandensein (de) n, Verfügbarkeit (de) f Greek: periphrastically; spurious: διαθεσιμότητα (el) f (diathesimótita) Hungarian: elérhetőség (hu) Icelandic: fáanleiki (is) m Indonesian: ketersediaan (id) Italian: disponibilità (it) f, reperibilità (it) f Japanese: 供給 (ja) (kyōkyū), 可用性 (kayo-sei) Korean: 가용도 (gayongdo) Lithuanian: prieinamumas (lt) m Malay: ketersediaan, kebolehsediaan, kebolehdapatan, keperolehan Malayalam: ലഭ്യത (labhyata) Norwegian: Bokmål: tilgjengelighet m or f Portuguese: disponibilidade (pt) f Romanian: disponibilitate (ro) f Russian: нали́чие (ru) n (nalíčije) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: dostupnost (sh) f Spanish: disponibilidad (es) f Swahili: upatikanaji

that which is available

Dutch: beschikbaarheid (nl) f Finnish: vaihtoehto (fi) Indonesian: tersedianya Malay: ketersediaan, kebolehsediaan, kebolehdapatan, keperolehan

Further reading

• Route availability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “availability”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.