Word.ws English Dictionary

compossibility

compossibility noun: the quality of being compossible.

Noun

compossibility (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being compossible.
    • In other words, the qualitative nature or content of a property determines its logic, which in turn logically determines the properties with which it can be coinstantiated or be compossible. Considered purely logically, the totality of compossibilities of a particular property—the totality of...2008, Eike-Henner W. Kluge, “Scotus On Accidental And Essential Causes”, in Franciscan Studies, volumes 66, John Duns Scotus Doctor Subtilis, In Memoriam 1308-2008, →JSTOR, pages 233–246

Questions about compossibility

What does compossibility mean?
Compossibility means the quality of being compossible.
What part of speech is compossibility?
Compossibility is a noun.

Words near compossibility in the dictionary

  1. compositry
  2. compositum
  3. compositums
  4. composograph
  5. composographs
  6. compossibility
  7. compossible
  8. compossibly
  9. compost
  10. compost heap
  11. compost heaps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: compossibility (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “compossibility.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/compossibility. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.