[f. ACCESSIBLE + -ITY. Cf. Fr. accessibilité also quite modern.] The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach. fig. Openness to influence.
[Webster cites Langhorne, 1766–1802. Not in Craig, 1847; In Worcester 1859.]
1810. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 362. Accessibility to the sentiments of others … often accompanies feeble minds.
1842. Mrs. Browning, Grk. Chr. Poets (1863), 10. The greater accessibility of Latin literature.
1850. Merivale, Hist. Rom. Emp., IV. xxxviii. 323. The accessibility of Italy upon this side … was at all times a matter of anxiety to her rulers.
1865. M. Arnold, Ess. in Crit. (1875), v. 190. The French … have shown more accessibility to ideas than any other people.
