unputdownability
unputdownability noun: the quality of being unputdownable.
Noun
unputdownability (uncountable)
- The quality of being unputdownable.
- Better to adapt the slogan of Count Mippipopolous in The Sun Also Rises who, when Jake suggests he should write a book about wine, answers: “All I want out of wines, Mr. Barnes, is to enjoy them,” and say: “All I want out of novels is to be able to read them.” Yet this quality of buttonholing...1955 September 3, Maurice Richardson, “New Novels”, in The New Statesman and Nation: The Week-end Review, volume L, number 1278, London: Statesman and Nation Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page...
- But romance it is, and the ‘unputdownability’ of The Day of the Jackal is a professional and decorous assembly of original and fore-ordained ingredients from a quintessentially romantic genre.1977, Bruce Merry, chapter 2, in Anatomy of the Spy Thriller, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, →ISBN, page 65
- Synonyms:
- unputdownableness
Examples of unputdownability in a sentence
- Barnes, is to enjoy them,” and say: “All I want out of novels is to be able to read them.” Yet this quality of buttonholing readability, or unputdownability, is an important phenomenon.1955 September 3, Maurice Richardson, “New Novels”, in The New Statesman and Nation: The Week-end Review, volume L, number 1278, London...
- Both go down with the ease of a Dirty Shirley, but neither captured my heart or attained that overused marketing promise of “unputdownability.”2022 May 26, Michelle Ruiz, “Beachy, Sun-Kissed Novels Set on Nantucket and Cape Cod”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y....
Synonyms of unputdownability
Origin of unputdownability
From un- + put down + -ability.
Questions about unputdownability
- What does unputdownability mean?
- Unputdownability means the quality of being unputdownable.
- How do you use unputdownability in a sentence?
- Barnes, is to enjoy them,” and say: “All I want out of novels is to be able to read them.” Yet this quality of buttonholing readability, or unputdownability, is an important phenomenon.
- What part of speech is unputdownability?
- Unputdownability is a noun.
Words near unputdownability in the dictionary
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