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displaceability

displaceability noun: the quality or degree of being displaceable.

Noun

displaceability (countable and uncountable, plural displaceabilities)

  1. The quality or degree of being displaceable.
    • The process of making and marking members of the nation as “foreign” or “strange”—this alienation and alienization—is clearly embodied by those migrants who are targeted by state policies. But the effects of displaceability are far-reaching.2016, Deborah Boehm, Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation, page 30
    • As the soft tissues are represented by dental stone on the models, the different displaceabilities would render any record inaccurate.2018, P. D. Wilson, Manual of Clinical Procedures in Dentistry, page 396

Forms of displaceability

pluraldisplaceabilities

Origin of displaceability

From displace + -ability.

Questions about displaceability

What does displaceability mean?
Displaceability means the quality or degree of being displaceable.
What part of speech is displaceability?
Displaceability is a noun.
What is the plural of displaceability?
The plural of displaceability is displaceabilities.

Words near displaceability in the dictionary

  1. dispiteously
  2. dispiteousness
  3. displacable
  4. displace
  5. displaceabilities
  6. displaceability
  7. displaceable
  8. displaced
  9. displaced homemaker
  10. displaced homemakers
  11. displaced people

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