[f. next + -ITY.] The quality or fact of being feasible.
1. Capability of being done; practicability.
1624. T. James, in Abp. Ussher’s Lett. (1686), 308. If he did turn away his mind wholly from Chelsey, I durst presume of more fasibility [sic] and possibility here of doing good. Ibid., 331. To give proof of the faisibility [sic] of the Work to the common profit of the Church.
1652. Heylin, Cosmogr., App. 196. The Excellency and feasibility of his invention.
a. 1678. Woodhead, Holy Living (1688), 162. The alike easiness, and faisibility of all things unto him.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Stone, According to the different circumstance of Difficulty or Feasibility of it.
1860. Froude, Hist. Eng., VI. 519. They changed their minds on the feasibility of their enterprise.
b. quasi-concr. Something feasible.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. v. 17. Men often swallow … fesibilities for possibilities [read possibilities for fesibilities], and things impossible for possibilities.
† 2. Capability of being made. Obs.
1655. in Ref Commonw. Bees 33. My confident Assertion of the fecibility of Aqua vitæ out of grain unmalted.
