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COMBUSTIBLENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does combustibleness mean?

• COMBUSTIBLENESS (noun)
The noun COMBUSTIBLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being capable of igniting and burning

Familiarity information: COMBUSTIBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COMBUSTIBLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being capable of igniting and burning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

burnability; combustibility; combustibleness

Hypernyms ("combustibleness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "combustibleness"):

flammability; inflammability (the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly)

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