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Fearsome
(Fear"some) a.

1. Frightful; causing fear. [Scotch] "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott

2. Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor

Feasibility
(Fea"si*bil*ity) n.; pl. Feasibilities [from Feasible] The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.

Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities.
Sir T. Browne.

Feasible
(Fea"si*ble) a. [F. faisable, fr. faire to make or do, fr. L. facere. See Fact, Feat.]

1. Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.

Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice.
Burke.
It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions.
Beaconsfield.

2. Fit to be used or tailed, as land. [R.] R. Trumbull.

Fea"si*ble*ness, n.Fea"si*bly, adv.