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Fossility vs Fissility - What's the difference?

fossility | fissility |

As nouns the difference between fossility and fissility

is that fossility is the quality of being a genuine fossil while fissility is quality of being fissile.

fossility

English

Noun

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  • (humorous, or, nonstandard) The quality of being a genuine fossil.
  • (humorous, or, nonstandard) Having qualities usually attributed to fossils, such as age combined with an absence of contemporary traits.

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    fissility

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Quality of being fissile.
  • (geology) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales.

    • See also

    * foliation

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