[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or faculty of being communicable.
1628. Donne, Serm., vi. 53. Out of an Accommodation and Communicablenesse of himselfe to Man.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1655), II. lxi. 88. The antient Hebrew … Greek and Latine tongues had [the fortune] … to lose their general communicableness and vulgarity, and to becom only school and book languages.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, v. 103. A communicableness of knowledge and ideas.
