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affordant

affordant adjective: affording.

Adjective

affordant (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Affording.
  2. Relating to affordance.

Origin of affordant

See afford and -ant. Sense 2 is a back-formation from affordance, itself coined in 1977.

Questions about affordant

What does affordant mean?
Affordant means affording.
What part of speech is affordant?
Affordant is an adjective.

Words near affordant in the dictionary

  1. affordable housing
  2. affordables
  3. affordably
  4. affordance
  5. affordances
  6. affordant
  7. afforded
  8. afforder
  9. afforders
  10. affordest
  11. affordeth

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