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Unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards
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unacceptability
Word definitions for unacceptability in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards [syn: unacceptableness ] [ant: acceptability ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being unacceptable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unacceptability \Un`ac*cept`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.
Usage examples of unacceptability.
Soon the two were enthusiastically discussing the merits of racially segregated education, the unacceptability of mixed marriages and the impossibility of allowing non-whites to vote.
Suddenly, because somehow I had started all this, a terrible unacceptability came over the idea of his keeping me from tying the last knot.
I thought that anger then, for just an instant, suffused her countenance but then, suddenly terrified, as though she might suddenly have realized the unacceptability of her reaction, she hurried over to the fellow Borton had indicted, to fling herself to her stomach before him, desperately and zealously licking and kissing at his feet.
To be sure, had I continued to consider such matters, I supposed he might have instructed me, sooner or later, with the whip or some other means, as to the unacceptability of such considerations.