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Perishableness

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n. The state of being perishable; perishability.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The character of being perishable; liability to speedy decay or destruction; lack of keeping or lasting qualities.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction

Word Usage

"For we can have no adequate idea of their duration (by the last Prop.), and this is what we must understand by the contingency and perishableness of things."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

unsatisfactoriness

Verb Stem

perish