uncontrollableness
uncontrollableness noun: the state or quality of being uncontrollable.
Noun
uncontrollableness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being uncontrollable.
- […] as to the advisability of marriage. On the whole, the young man is inclined to avoid the risks and dangers of conjugal life. However, he complains of the persistence and the uncontrollableness of his passions. He seems to think that he would be well off if he could be entirely free from them....1966, Edward Willis Scripps, edited by Oliver Knight, I Protest: Selected Disquisitions of E. W. Scripps, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 422
Synonyms of uncontrollableness
- uncontrollability
- ungovernableness
- ungovernability
- uncheckability
- unrestrainability
- unconstrainedness
- controllability
- governableness
- governability
- checkability
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Origin of uncontrollableness
From uncontrollable + -ness.
Questions about uncontrollableness
- What does uncontrollableness mean?
- Uncontrollableness means the state or quality of being uncontrollable.
- What part of speech is uncontrollableness?
- Uncontrollableness is a noun.
Words near uncontrollableness in the dictionary
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