BREAKABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breakableness mean? 

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

1. the consistency of something that breaks under pressure

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAKABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The consistency of something that breaks under pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)

Attribute:

breakable (capable of being broken or damaged)

unbreakable (impossible to break especially under ordinary usage)

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

brittleness; crispiness; crispness (firm but easily broken)

crumbliness; friability (excessive breakableness)

Antonym:

unbreakableness (a consistency of something that does not break under pressure)

Derivation:

breakable (capable of being broken or damaged)