displaceability

displaceability

English

Etymology

displace +‎ -ability

Noun

displaceability (countable and uncountable, plural displaceabilities)

1. The quality or degree of being displaceable.
   • 2016, Deborah Boehm, Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation, page 30:

     The process of making and marking members of the nation as “foreign” or “strange”—this alienation and alienization—is clearly embodied by those migrants who are targeted by state policies. But the effects of displaceability are far-reaching.

   • 2018, P. D. Wilson, Manual of Clinical Procedures in Dentistry, page 396:

     As the soft tissues are represented by dental stone on the models, the different displaceabilities would render any record inaccurate.