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nonfungible

nonfungible adjective: not fungible, not interchangeable.

Adjective

nonfungible (not comparable)

  1. Not fungible, not interchangeable.
    • 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
    • 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

Noun

nonfungible (plural nonfungibles)

  1. (in plural) Any nonfungible item.

Forms of nonfungible

Adjective
alternative formnon-fungible
Noun
pluralnonfungibles

Origin of nonfungible

From non- + fungible.

Words formed from nonfungible

Questions about nonfungible

What does nonfungible mean?
Nonfungible means not fungible, not interchangeable.
What part of speech is nonfungible?
Nonfungible can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonfungible in the dictionary

  1. nonfunded
  2. nonfundraising
  3. nonfuneral
  4. nonfungal
  5. nonfungibility
  6. nonfungible
  7. nonfungibles
  8. nonfungicidal
  9. nonfungicide
  10. nonfungicides
  11. nonfungistatic

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