The word "formidability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize the overwhelming strength or difficulty of something. Example sentence: The formidability of the math exam was intimidating for the students.
I believe we were leaving some formidable spot — or does the memory of formidability come from the advent of La Prensa?" Why muddle?
Dr Fessler reasoned that since size and musculature have been a reliable indicator of formidability for the longest stretch of man's evolutionary past, they might still dominate the calculation, even if actual awesomeness no longer stems from these physical attributes.
These results more or less matched the scores on the other two formidability measures, with the gun-holders consistently coming top.
Nonetheless, the Turkish confederacy remained a tribal nomad polity with both the ferocious formidability and fragility associated with such systems of command.
For the first time, the natural gradient of the Eurasian Steppe came fully into play when a tribal confederation, called Hsiung-nu by the Chinese, attained an unmatched formidability.
Karen from the Wishy Washy is a study in formidability.
But basically Walt and Jesse are very much – not necessarily intellectually equals, but speaking in terms of formidability – is that a word?
All had an approachability that neatly sidestepped notions of avant-garde formidability.
For another, "Nunderwater Nort Lab" is the most monolithic piece Ms. Washburn has yet made, and it has an insouciant sculptural formidability that is unusual to her work.
Giving her formidability a greyer hue, Withers played a prison governor striving to be, as well as a disciplinarian, as sensitive as possible to the problems of the prisoners.
And a new study, published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, shows that subjects, when exposed to "black-sounding" names, assumed that a person with that name would scare them because of "estimations of physical formidability" – that is, they assumed the person to be bigger than they are and scarier than they are, though black and white men do not differ in average height.
