The quality or state of being fordable; the capacity to be crossed by wading through water.
From fordable + -ness (suffix forming abstract nouns). A compound formation creating the abstract quality of water that can be safely crossed on foot.
Medieval travelers wrote extensively about a river's 'fordableness' in their journals—it was literally a matter of life and death, deciding whether armies could invade or refugees could escape.
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