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DISPENSABILITY

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

1. the quality possessed by something that you can get along without

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

• DISPENSABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality possessed by something that you can get along without

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dispensability; dispensableness

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

inessentiality (not of basic importance)

Attribute:

dispensable (capable of being dispensed with or done without)

indispensable (not to be dispensed with; essential)

Antonym:

indispensability (the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without)

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(Bengali proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
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(Dutch proverb)

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