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INCURABLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incurableness mean?
• INCURABLENESS (noun)
The noun INCURABLENESS has 1 sense:
1. incapability of being cured or healed
Familiarity information: INCURABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapability of being cured or healed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
incurability; incurableness
Hypernyms ("incurableness" is a kind of...):
characteristic (a distinguishing quality)
Antonym:
curableness (capability of being cured or healed)
Derivation:
incurable (incapable of being cured)
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