tractability

English

Etymology

From Middle English tractabilite, from tractable + -ite, after Latin tractābilitās.

Noun

tractability (countable and uncountable, plural tractabilities)

1. The state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
   • 2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947

     At the expense of some realism, these simplifying assumptions afford a great deal of tractability, which allows us to make clear statements about optimal policy.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “tractability”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “tractability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.