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CURABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curability mean? 

CURABILITY (noun)
  The noun CURABILITY has 1 sense:

1. capability of being cured or healedplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CURABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Capability of being cured or healed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

curability; curableness

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

characteristic (a distinguishing quality)

Antonym:

incurability (incapability of being cured or healed)

Derivation:

curable (able to be cured or healed)


 Context examples 


The majority of patients present with advanced tumors which have poor rates of curability.

(Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)



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