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nonfungible en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + fungible.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not fungible, not interchangeable.
    • But the claim that love of certain sorts—romantic, maternal, filial—is nonfungible means that this emotion is directed only to the particular individuals who manifest those properties. 2019, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Things: In Touch with the Past, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:
    • Horses, slaves, and so forth, are non-fungible things, because they differ individually in value and cannot be exchanged indifferently one for another. 1880, Thomas Erskine Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence, 12th edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1916, page 107:

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Deriveds

non-fungible token

nonfungible en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + fungible.

Meanings

  1. (in-plural) Any nonfungible item.

Forms

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