lamentability
lamentability noun: the state or characteristic of being lamentable.
Noun
lamentability (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
- Mr. Bush . . ., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property(!) and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street.1993, Judith Butler, “Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia”, in Robert Gooding-Williams, editor, Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising, digital, published 2009, →ISBN
- Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator.2000, Michael J. Meyer, Literature and Homosexuality, →ISBN, page 95
- Synonyms:
- lamentableness
Synonyms of lamentability
Origin of lamentability
From lament + -ability.
Questions about lamentability
- What does lamentability mean?
- Lamentability means the state or characteristic of being lamentable.
- What part of speech is lamentability?
- Lamentability is a noun.
Words near lamentability in the dictionary
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