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DISPENSABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dispensability mean?
• DISPENSABILITY (noun)
The noun DISPENSABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality possessed by something that you can get along without
Familiarity information: DISPENSABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality possessed by something that you can get along without
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
dispensability; dispensableness
Hypernyms ("dispensability" is a kind of...):
inessentiality (not of basic importance)
Attribute:
dispensable (capable of being dispensed with or done without)
indispensable (not to be dispensed with; essential)
Antonym:
indispensability (the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without)
Derivation:
dispensable (capable of being dispensed with or done without)
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