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Unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction.

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Usage examples (26)
  • Adjective : perishable fruits and vegetables
  • Perhaps their perishableness was the excuse for allowing their sale on the
  • 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.
  • Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented themselves; the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant recurred to my mind.
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