Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being interchangeable.
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- noun the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange
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Examples
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Last year, in the months following the release of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, starring Michael Cera, and Adventureland, starring Jesse Eisenberg, movie blogs were abuzz with posts about the seeming interchangeableness of the two actors.
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The great potato drive to utilize the surplus of our huge 1917 potato-crop, 100,000,000 bushels above normal, has fixed in every one's mind the interchangeableness of these two foods.
Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover Florence Powdermaker 1930
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An example of the last mentioned self-immolation (self-crucifixion) is given by Berghierri, and is a remarkable instance of the interchangeableness of religious emotion and sexual desire in psychopathic individuals.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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Now, permit me, as briefly as possible, to designate the cause of the relationship between, and the interchangeableness of, religious feeling and sexual desire, which, as I believe, is to be found in the once widespread existence of phallic worship.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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In explanation of this apparent interchangeableness, we must recollect that no character is simple, and that in twins who strongly resemble each other, every expression in the one may be matched by a corresponding expression in the other, but it does not follow that the same expression should be the prevalent one in both cases.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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That a relationship between, and an interchangeableness of, these two widely dissimilar psychical operations, _i. e._, religious emotion and sexual desire, does exist, there can be no doubt. [
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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Tertullian mentions her four times, once in connexion with the Nativity, once merely to defend the occasional interchangeableness of the words "woman" and "Virgin" by showing that both are applied to her ( "De Veland.
Triablogue 2009
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