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INCONVERTIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inconvertibility mean?
• INCONVERTIBILITY (noun)
The noun INCONVERTIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of not being exchangeable
Familiarity information: INCONVERTIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being exchangeable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the inconvertibility of their currency made international trade impossible
Hypernyms ("inconvertibility" is a kind of...):
exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)
Antonym:
convertibility (the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction))
Derivation:
inconvertible (used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value)
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