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opposabilities

opposabilities is the plural of opposability.

Meaning of opposability

Noun

opposability (usually uncountable, plural opposabilities)

  1. (usually) The condition or quality of being opposable (capable of being placed opposite to something else).
    • Among the Primates themselves there is a whole group of living species, the South American marmosets, that, in the fore feet at least, show no evidence of opposability, although they are strictly arboreal in habits.1919, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, volume 9, page 276
  2. (usually) The condition or quality of being opposable (capable of being resisted).
    • This consequence remains hidden as long as custom is thought in terms of "opposabilities" in which the States' conduct is interpreted so as to render the same norm.2006, Martti Koskenniemi, From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument

Questions about opposabilities

What is opposabilities the plural of?
Opposabilities is the plural of opposability.

Words near opposabilities in the dictionary

  1. opportunity windows
  2. opportunityless
  3. opportunivore
  4. opportunivores
  5. oppos
  6. opposabilities
  7. opposability
  8. opposable
  9. opposable thumb
  10. opposable thumbs
  11. opposably

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