English

Alternative forms

• operationalisability

Noun

operationalizability ‎(uncountable)

1. The state or characteristic of being capable of being operationalized.
   • 1981, H. H. Lentner, “Review of Foreign Policy Behavior: The Interstate Behavior Analysis Model by Jonathan Wilkenfeld et al.”, in American Political Science Review, volume 75, number 3, page 756:

     There is a good review of the literature, using the criteria of comprehensiveness, comparability, operationalizability, and public policy relevance.

   • 2004, Heather Douglas, “The Irreducible Complexity of Objectivity”, in Synthese, volume 138, number 3, note 19, page 472:

     I do not have a non-perspectival sense of objectivity here because of its prima facie lack of operationalizability.