INCONVERTIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inconvertibility mean? 

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

1. the quality of not being exchangeable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCONVERTIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not being exchangeable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the inconvertibility of their currency made international trade impossible

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

exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

inconvertible (used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value)