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FLAMMABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flammability mean? 

FLAMMABILITY (noun)
  The noun FLAMMABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidlyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FLAMMABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

flammability; inflammability

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

burnability; combustibility; combustibleness (the quality of being capable of igniting and burning)

Derivation:

flammable (easily ignited)


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