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COMBUSTIBLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does combustibleness mean?
• COMBUSTIBLENESS (noun)
The noun COMBUSTIBLENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being capable of igniting and burning
Familiarity information: COMBUSTIBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being capable of igniting and burning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
burnability; combustibility; combustibleness
Hypernyms ("combustibleness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "combustibleness"):
flammability; inflammability (the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly)
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