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Not`a*bil"i*ty (?), n.; pl.
Notabilities (#). [Cf. F. notabilité
.] 1. Quality of being notable.

2. A notable, or remarkable, person or thing;
a person of note. "Parisian notabilities"
Carlyle.

3. A notable saying. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Not"a*ble (?), a. [F. notable,
L. notabilis, fr. notare to mark, nota mark,
note. See 5th Note.]

1. Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan;
evident.

2. Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable;
noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person.

&fist; Notable in the sense of careful,
thrifty, characterized by thrift and capacity (as, a
notable housekeeper) is pronounced by many good
orthoëpists, n&obreve;t"&adot;*b'l, the derivatives
notableness, and notably, being also similarly
pronounced with short o in the first syllable.


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