EXCHANGEABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exchangeability mean? 

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

1. the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCHANGEABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being capable of exchange or interchange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness

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

changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)

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

duality ((geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry)

transferability (the quality of being transferable or exchangeable)

convertibility (the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction))

inconvertibility (the quality of not being exchangeable)

commutability; replaceability; substitutability (exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable)

liquidity (being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability)

permutability; permutableness; transposability (ability to change sequence)

Antonym:

unexchangeability (the quality of being incapable of exchange or interchange)

Derivation:

exchangeable (capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value)