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BREAKABLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The consistency of something that breaks under pressure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("breakableness" is a kind of...):
body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)
Attribute:
breakable (capable of being broken or damaged)
unbreakable (impossible to break especially under ordinary usage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breakableness"):
brittleness; crispiness; crispness (firm but easily broken)
crumbliness; friability (excessive breakableness)
Antonym:
unbreakableness (a consistency of something that does not break under pressure)
Derivation:
breakable (capable of being broken or damaged)
