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UNEXCHANGEABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unexchangeability mean?
• UNEXCHANGEABILITY (noun)
The noun UNEXCHANGEABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being incapable of exchange or interchange
Familiarity information: UNEXCHANGEABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being incapable of exchange or interchange
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unexchangeability" is a kind of...):
changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unexchangeability"):
incommutability (the quality of being not interchangeable)
irreplaceableness (the quality of being irreplaceable)
Antonym:
exchangeability (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)
Derivation:
unexchangeable (used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value)
unexchangeable (not suitable to be exchanged)
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