INCONVERTIBILITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of not being exchangeable

Example:

the inconvertibility of their currency made international trade impossible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("inconvertibility" is a kind of...):

exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)

Antonym:

convertibility (the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction))

Derivation:

inconvertible (used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value)