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RELIABLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reliableness mean?
• RELIABLENESS (noun)
The noun RELIABLENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being dependable or reliable
Familiarity information: RELIABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being dependable or reliable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
dependability; dependableness; reliability; reliableness
Hypernyms ("reliableness" is a kind of...):
responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reliableness"):
solidity; solidness (the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally)
infallibility (the quality of never making an error)
duplicability; reproducibility (the quality of being reproducible)
Antonym:
unreliableness (the trait of not being dependable or reliable)
Derivation:
reliable (worthy of reliance or trust)
reliable (conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief)
reliable (worthy of being depended on)
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