DEPENDABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dependability mean? 

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

1. the quality of being dependable or reliable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPENDABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being dependable or reliable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dependability; dependableness; reliability; reliableness

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

responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)

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

solidity; solidness (the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally)

infallibility (the quality of never making an error)

duplicability; reproducibility (the quality of being reproducible)

Antonym:

undependability (the trait of not being dependable or reliable)

Derivation:

dependable (worthy of reliance or trust)

dependable (consistent in performance or behavior)

dependable (worthy of being depended on)