feasibility

[Eng. feasible; -ity.] 1. The quality of being feasible or practicable; practicability. "This did not hinder me from prosecuting a design whose feasibility I considered."- Boyle : Works , iii. 569. 2. A thing feasible or practicable; a po ibility. "Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, po ibilities for feasibilities , and things impo ible for po ibilities themselves."- Browne : Vulgar Errors, bk. i., ch. v. fēaş-i-ble, a. & s. [Fr. faisable =po ible to be done, from faisant, pr. par. of faire to do; Lat. 2. Afraid. (Generally followed by of .) "The Irish are more fearful to offend the law than the facio .] English."-Davies: On Ireland. "Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh." Shakesp.: Richard III., v. 3. *5. Awful; to be reverenced or feared. "Who is like thee, glorious in holine , fearful in praises?"-Exod. xv. 11. 6. Causing fear or terror; terrible, awful, fright ful. "In dreams they fearful precipices tread." Dryden: Annus Mirabilis , lxxi. Crabb thus discriminates between fearful , dreadful, frightful , tremendous, terrible , terrific , horrible, and horrid : "The first two affect the mind more than the senses; all the others affect the senses more than the mind; a contest is fearful