salvageability

Can it be saved

Salvageability is the quality of being salvageable—capable of being saved, recovered, or rescued from loss or destruction.

The term appears in discussions of damaged property, failed projects, or troubled relationships: The insurance adjuster assessed the salvageability of the flooded inventory.

After the scandal, consultants debated the salvageability of his political career.

assessment

appraisal

Estimation of worth

viability · potential · worth · marketability · usability · condition · recoverability · insurability · cost-benefit · writeoff

recoverability

retrievability

Capacity to be fetched

redeemability · reversibility · renewability · fixability · curability · correctability

resilience

durability

Resistance to wear

sturdiness · toughness · endurance · integrity · longevity · weatherability · indestructibility · soundness · structural integrity

reuse

recyclability

Potential for material recovery

resourcefulness · scrap value

Opposites
recoverability

salvageabilityirrecoverability

Being beyond restoration

irretrievability · irreversibility · total loss · beyond repair · hopelessness

value preservation

salvageabilitytotal loss

Irreparably damaged item

worthlessness · valuelessness · irrecoverability · waste · futility

loss/destruction finality

salvageabilitytotal loss

Irreparably damaged item

ruination · obliteration · terminal damage · finality · perdition

Family

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