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fungibility

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: changeableness, changeability

Narrower terms: duality, transferability, convertibility, inconvertibility, replaceability, substitutability, commutability, liquidity, permutability, permutableness, transposability

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English fungible Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English fungibility From fungible + -ity.

Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: fungibilitat — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Finnish: korvattavuus — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Finnish: vaihdettavuus — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Finnish: fungibiliteetti — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • French: fongibilité — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • German: Fungibilität — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • German: Vertretbarkeit — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Hungarian: helyettesíthetőség — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Latvian: aizstājamība — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Macedonian: заме́нливост (zaménlivost) — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Macedonian: разме́нливост (razménlivost) — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Portuguese: fungibilidade — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Russian: взаимозаменя́емость (vzaimozamenjájemostʹ) — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Slovak: nahraditeľnosť — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Spanish: fungibilidad — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Swedish: utbytbarhet — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution
  • Ukrainian: взаємозамінність (vzajemozaminnistʹ) — property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution