perishableness

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsperishability

   Broaderunsatisfactoriness

Other forms of perishableness

plural

perishablenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perishableness

What does perishableness mean?

perishableness means "unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction".

How many syllables are in perishableness?

perishableness has 5 syllables: pe-ri-sha-ble-ness. The stress falls on "sha".

What is another word for perishableness?

Close synonyms include perishability. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perishableness a common word?

perishableness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.