▪ I. † inˌgeneraˈbility1 Obs.
[f. ingenerable1: see -ity; cf. It. ingenerabilità (Florio), F. ingénérabilité (Bayle, in Littré).]
The quality of being ingenerable; incapacity of being generated.
| 1598 Florio, Ingenerabilita, vnbegetting, ingenerabilitie. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §34. 43 Firmly conclusive..for Substantial Incorporeal Souls, and their Ingenerability out of the Matter. a 1691 Boyle Hist. Air vi. (1692) 18 The Controversy about the Ingenerability (as they speak) or the mutual Transmutation of the Bodies that are called Elementary. |
▪ II. inˌgeneraˈbility2 rare—0.
[f. ingenerable2 + -ity.]
Capability of being generated.
| In mod. Dicts. |