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FUNGIBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being capable of exchange or interchange
Synonyms:
exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fungibility" is a kind of...):
changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fungibility"):
duality ((geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry)
transferability (the quality of being transferable or exchangeable)
convertibility (the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction))
inconvertibility (the quality of not being exchangeable)
commutability; replaceability; substitutability (exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable)
liquidity (being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability)
permutability; permutableness; transposability (ability to change sequence)
Derivation:
fungible (of goods or commodities; freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation)