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desirability

Noun

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The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me. Toni Morrison

Ceratosaurus is and has been my favorite dino since 1958. This is a minority taste. I've met only one dino-digger who rated it #1 in desirability. Robert T. Bakker

Today's fashion magazines may carry an article about the dangers of anorexia while bombarding its readers with images of emaciated young bodies representing the height of beauty and desirability. Bell hooks

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. Friedrich Hayek

I am not a propagandist, but a prophet. I do not say that what I say should come to pass, but what I think is likely to come to pass, and what is inevitable. While I would not be understood as advocating the desirability of such a result, I would not be understood as deprecating it. Frederick Douglass

He saw much good in inherited institutions, and yet, at the same time, he also saw the desirability and necessity of change. Alan O. Ebenstein

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