uncrossableness
uncrossableness noun: the quality of being uncrossable.
Noun
uncrossableness (uncountable)
- The quality of being uncrossable.
- To think that the main northern road should be blocked to vehicular traffic by the uncrossableness of the Hunter for six months is simply scandalous, and doesn’t redound much to the credit of the vaunted energy of the Roads and Bridges Department.1890 August 14, “Aberdeen”, in Second Sheet to The Maitland Mercury, Maitland, N.S.W., published 16 August 1890, page [7], column 1
- The sharpness of the contrasts in the story reflects the depth of the gulf between rich and poor in the present life. Its uncrossableness and the extreme opposition between rich and poor explain the future torment of the rich.1986, Luise Schottroff, Wolfgang Stegemann, translated by Matthew J. O’Connell, “‘The Poor Have Good News Preached to Them’: The Earliest Tradition about Jesus of Nazareth”, in Jesus and the Hope of...
- Synonyms:
- uncrossability
- Antonyms:
- crossability, crossableness
Examples of uncrossableness in a sentence
- And when he did, he touched the veil; he felt its uncrossableness.2007 August, Gregory Spencer, “Veils Unveiled”, in Guardian of the Veil: A Three-Dimensional Tale, New York, N.Y.: Howard Books, →ISBN...
- these reasons that run like a river between us give a certain poignancy and ache to the distance and irremediable uncrossableness of it2013, Chuck Miller, “for John”, in Parsecs to Go, Poems of Protest, Muscatine, Ia.: Prairie Rose Press, →ISBN, page 51:
Synonyms of uncrossableness
Antonyms
Origin of uncrossableness
From uncrossable + -ness.
Questions about uncrossableness
- What does uncrossableness mean?
- Uncrossableness means the quality of being uncrossable.
- How do you use uncrossableness in a sentence?
- And when he did, he touched the veil; he felt its uncrossableness.
- What part of speech is uncrossableness?
- Uncrossableness is a noun.
Words near uncrossableness in the dictionary
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