PERISHABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perishability mean? 

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

1. unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERISHABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

perishability; perishableness

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

unsatisfactoriness (the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable)

Derivation:

perishable (liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay)