mutual exclusiveness

Definitions of mutual exclusiveness
  1. noun
    the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
    synonyms: incompatibility, inconsistency, repugnance
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    type of:
    contradictoriness
    the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist
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