Word.ws English Dictionary

unavailableness

unavailableness noun: the quality of being unavailable.

Noun

unavailableness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unavailable.
    • I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 35, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 239

Origin of unavailableness

From unavailable + -ness.

Questions about unavailableness

What does unavailableness mean?
Unavailableness means the quality of being unavailable.
What part of speech is unavailableness?
Unavailableness is a noun.

Words near unavailableness in the dictionary

  1. unavailabilities
  2. unavailability
  3. unavailable
  4. unavailable energies
  5. unavailable energy
  6. unavailableness
  7. unavailables
  8. unavailably
  9. unavailed
  10. unavailing
  11. unavailingly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unavailableness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unavailableness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unavailableness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.