[f. prec. + -NESS.]
1. Of persons: Readiness to be advised; openness to advice. rare.
1673. O. Walker, Education (1677), 94. These then promise virtue—modesty, obedience, advisableness.
2. Of things: The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency, propriety.
1731. Bailey, vol. II., Advisableness, fitness to be advised, done, etc., expediency.
1755. in Johnson n.q.
1853. Wayland, Mem. Judson, II. iii. 109. You inquire about the advisableness of setting up a school at Amherst.
1881. Sat. Rev., 2 April, 428. Lord Coleridge … gently suggested the advisableness of hostile encounters being brought off on a foreign soil.
