nonfungible

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adjective

Not fungible, not interchangeable.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivenonfungible (not comparable)

alternative non-fungible

  1. not comparablebusinessNot fungible, not interchangeable.

    Horses, slaves, and so forth, are non-fungible things, because they differ individually in value and cannot be exchanged indifferently one for another.

    1880, Thomas Erskine Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence, 12th edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1916, page 107
    1 more example

    But the claim that love of certain sorts—romantic, maternal, filial—is nonfungible means that this emotion is directed only to the particular individuals who manifest those properties.

    2019, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Things: In Touch with the Past, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100
nounnonfungible (plural nonfungibles)

plural nonfungibles · alternative non-fungible

  1. in pluralAny nonfungible item.

Origin

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APA

nonfungible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonfungible

MLA

“nonfungible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonfungible. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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