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

	

	47 Moby Thesaurus words for "viability":
   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

	

	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.