communicableness

But the intellectual organization of the English admits a communicableness of knowledge and ideas among them all.

V. English Traits. Ability 1909

He had a theory that the great lyric poets -- he induced her to read, and recite as well, long passages of Wordsworth and Swinburne -- would teach her many of the secrets of the large utterance, the mysteries of rhythm, the communicableness of style, the latent music of the language and the art of "composing" copious speeches and of retaining her stores of free breath.

The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

But the intellectual organization of the English admits a communicableness of knowledge and ideas among them all.

English Traits (1856) 1856

For as physicians, finding by experience the force of any medicine in the cure of some one disease, make use of it by accommodation, proportionably to every other disease of affinity thereto, so are we to deal with such speeches as are of a common import and apt to communicate their value to other things; we must not confine them to that one thing only to which they were at first adapted, but transfer them to all other of like nature, and accustom young men by many parallel instances to see the communicableness of them, and exercise the promptness of their wits in such applications so that when Menander says,

Essays and Miscellanies 2004