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substitutability en · NOUN

Etymology

From substitute + -ability.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being substitutable; the capacity to be substituted.
    • One problem with the principle of infinite substitutability is that it does not apply, in any simple fashion, to investments in organizational complexity. 1988, Joseph Tainter, “Summary and Implications”, in The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 212:

Forms

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substitutabilities Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

nonsubstitutability · intersubstitutability

Translations (1)

ru заменя́емость (quality of being substitutable)