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CURABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does curability mean?
• CURABILITY (noun)
The noun CURABILITY has 1 sense:
1. capability of being cured or healed
Familiarity information: CURABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capability of being cured or healed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
curability; curableness
Hypernyms ("curability" is a kind of...):
characteristic (a distinguishing quality)
Antonym:
incurability (incapability of being cured or healed)
Derivation:
curable (able to be cured or healed)
Context examples
The majority of patients present with advanced tumors which have poor rates of curability.
(Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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