adoptability

Ready for family

Adoptability is the quality of being suitable or ready for adoption.

The term applies most often to children in foster care and to animals in shelters, where it describes how likely they are to be placed with a family: The rescue group evaluates each dog's adoptability before listing them.

Factors affecting adoptability typically include age, health, and temperament.

appeal

desirable

Worth having or seeking

marketable · eligible · suitable · favorable · promising · welcome · preferred · in-demand · coveted · enticing

adaptability

flexible

Able to bend freely

malleable · versatile · modifiable · trainable · manageable · responsive · amenable · pliable · teachable · socialized

integration

assimilation

Absorbing into a whole

bonding · attachment · matching · screening · compatibility · fostering · homecoming · adjustment · acclimation · familiarization

Opposites
suitability for adoption

adoptabilityundesirability

Quality of being unwanted

unsuitability · institutionalization · ineligibility · unmarketability · unappealing

EASE OF UPTAKE (abstract)

adoptabilityunacceptability

Not meeting standards

incompatibility · impracticality · unsuitability · inaccessibility · complexity

capacity to be taken up or integrated

adoptabilityincompatibility

Unable to function together

unsuitability · inflexibility · inadaptability · non-transferability · rigidity

Family

adopt, adapt, adaptation, adaptable, adoption, adapted, adopted, adapting, adaptability

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G