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RELIABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reliableness mean? 

RELIABLENESS (noun)
  The noun RELIABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being dependable or reliableplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


RELIABLENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being dependable or reliable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dependability; dependableness; reliability; reliableness

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

responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)

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

solidity; solidness (the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally)

infallibility (the quality of never making an error)

duplicability; reproducibility (the quality of being reproducible)

Antonym:

unreliableness (the trait of not being dependable or reliable)

Derivation:

reliable (worthy of reliance or trust)

reliable (conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief)

reliable (worthy of being depended on)


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