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