marriageability

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English marriage Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English marriageability From marriage + -ability.

1. The condition of being marriageable.

   “At fifty-eight with no children of her own [...] she wondered about the hysteria, the violence, the damnation of pregnancy without marriageability.”

   “Three years might make a big difference to a woman's marriageability.”