AVAILABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does availableness mean? 

• AVAILABLENESS (noun)
  The noun AVAILABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being at hand when needed

  Familiarity information: AVAILABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVAILABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being at hand when needed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

accessibility; availability; availableness; handiness

Hypernyms ("availableness" is a kind of...):

convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)

Attribute:

accessible (capable of being reached)

inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)

available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)

unavailable (not available or accessible or at hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "availableness"):

command (availability for use)

print (availability in printed form)

Derivation:

available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)

available (convenient for use or disposal)