characteristic vs incurableness

incurableness vs characteristic

characteristic and incurableness both are nouns.

characteristic is an adjective but incurableness is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
characteristic	Yes	Yes	No	No
incurableness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, incurableness is a hyponym of characteristic; that is, incurableness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than characteristic:

characteristic: a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
incurableness: incapability of being cured or healed

Other hyponyms of characteristic include passport, recommendation, compatibility, incompatibility, point, spot, point, earmark, hallmark, stylemark, trademark, saving grace, aspect, safeness, dangerousness, curability, curableness, incurability, directness, straightness, indirectness, robustness, ruralism, rurality, streak, invasiveness, noninvasiveness.

characteristic (noun)	incurableness (noun)
a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something	incapability of being cured or healed
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
a prominent attribute or aspect of something
the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

characteristic (adjective)	incurableness (adjective)
typical or distinctive

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