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Dependability   /dɪpˌɛndəbˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Dependability

noun
1.
The quality of being dependable or reliable.  Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness.






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"Dependability" Quotes from Famous Books



... systems are a hindrance to the proper spiritual development of the individual. These systems engender an element of dependability on the individual which holds back his spiritual enfoldment and perverts his true individuality, which must grow and unfold before real progress ...
— The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants - A Psychic Revelation • Eros Urides and J. L. Kennon

... her business, that perhaps some day she might want charity herself. But now she found herself perceptibly indignant. She wondered if it wasn't Burnaby's presence that was making her so. Sitting across from her, he made her think of directness and dependability and other traits she was accustomed to refer to as "primitive virtues." She liked his black, heavily ribbed evening stockings. Somehow they were like him. It made her angry with herself and with Burnaby that she should feel this way; be so moved by "primitive virtues." ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various



Words linked to "Dependability" :   undependability, infallibility, undependableness, dependable, unreliability, reliability, unreliableness, responsibleness, reproducibility, reliableness, solidity, solidness, dependableness, responsibility, duplicability



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