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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

viability
    n 1: (of living things) capable of normal growth and development
    2: capable of being done in a practical and useful way

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Viability \Vi`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
   The quality or state of being viable. Specifically: 
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   (a) (Law) The capacity of living after birth. --Bouvier.
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   (b) The capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide
       geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

VIABILITY, med. jur. An aptitude to live after birth; extra uterine life. 1 
Briand. Med. Leg. 1ere partie, c. 6, art. 2. See 2 Sav. Dr. Rom. Append. 
III. for a learned discussion of this subject.

Thesaurus Results for Viability:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

acceptability, achievability, actability, activation, adequacy, admissibility, agreeability, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, attainability, being alive, birth, compassability, existence, feasibility, having life, immortality, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, manageability, maneuverability, manipulatability, negotiability, operability, performability, practicability, practicality, reactivation, realizability, satisfactoriness, spriteliness, sufficiency, superability, surmountability, tenability, tolerability, unexceptionability, unobjectionability, viableness, vitality, vivacity, workability

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