SUBSTITUTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does substitutability mean? 

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

1. exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSTITUTABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

commutability; replaceability; substitutability

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

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

Derivation:

substitutable (capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent)

 Context examples 

The FDA bases evaluations of substitutability, or therapeutic equivalence of a generic drug on scientific evaluation.

(Generic Drug, NCI Thesaurus)