[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being tunable; tunefulness, harmoniousness, sweetness of sound.
1561. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, I. I iij. The tunablenes of musicke is a very great refreshing of … griefs.
1694. W. Wotton, Anc. & Mod. Learn. (1697), 27. That derived Language actually has a Sweetness and Tunableness in its Composition.
1727. J. Spence, Ess. on Pope’s Odyss., 15. A general tunableness in the Verse will carry a Man on strangely.
1887. Athenæum, 26 March, 411/2. There is a certain lilt and tuneableness about some of these songs.
b. fig. Harmony, concord.
1569. Golding, Hemiges Post., Ded. 21. All the degrees of the realme being setled in a most sweete tunablenesse.
