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unassessability

unassessability noun: the state or characteristic of being incapable of being assessed, evaluated, or pondered.

Noun

unassessability (uncountable)

  1. The state or characteristic of being incapable of being assessed, evaluated, or pondered.
    • I also admit to a certain suspicion of evaluations, partly out of ignorance of the techniques and the machinery involved, and partly out of a perverse pride in the slowly dying academic legend about the royal subjectivity and therefore unassessability of the English discipline—especially where...1966, John Portz, "A Composition Institute," New Trends in English Education-Selected Addresses Delivered at the Conference on English Education, vol. 4, National Council of Teachers of English, p....
    • Lord Denning MR had based his objections, in Courtney and Fairbairn Ltd v Tolaini Brothers (Hotels) Ltd, on the unassessability of damages.1992, Jeff Cumberbatch, “In Freedom's Cause: The Contract to Negotiate”, in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, volume 12, number 4, page 587

Synonyms of unassessability

Origin of unassessability

From un- + assessability.

Questions about unassessability

What does unassessability mean?
Unassessability means the state or characteristic of being incapable of being assessed, evaluated, or pondered.
What part of speech is unassessability?
Unassessability is a noun.

Words near unassessability in the dictionary

  1. unassertive
  2. unassertively
  3. unassertiveness
  4. unasserts
  5. unasses
  6. unassessability
  7. unassessable
  8. unassessably
  9. unassessed
  10. unassibilated
  11. unassiduous

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