MUTUAL EXCLUSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutual exclusiveness mean? 

• MUTUAL EXCLUSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun MUTUAL EXCLUSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

  Familiarity information: MUTUAL EXCLUSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTUAL EXCLUSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

incompatibility; inconsistency; mutual exclusiveness; repugnance

Hypernyms ("mutual exclusiveness" is a kind of...):

contradictoriness (the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist)