The quality of being able to be spent, used up, or sacrificed without serious loss or harm.
From 'expendable' (able to be spent) + '-ity' (quality of). Built from Latin 'expendere' (ex- 'out' + pendere 'to weigh, pay'). The '-ity' suffix creates abstract nouns.
Military planners infamously classified soldiers as 'expendable'—treating humans as resources to be 'spent.' The word reveals how language can make moral horrors sound like accounting!
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