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unreturnability

unreturnability noun: the quality of being unreturnable.

Noun

unreturnability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unreturnable.
    • The opponent who answers the service, if he or she is able to return it, is now in a position to address the server, and he or she, too, will seek to imbue the return not only with answerability—that is, by sticking to the rules of the game like putting the return within the boundaries, for...2016 [2006], Robert Perinbanayagam, “The Self at Play: The Self in Time, Place, and Position”, in Games and Sport in Everyday Life: Dialogues and Narratives of the Self, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN...
    Antonyms:
    returnability

Antonyms of unreturnability

Origin of unreturnability

From un- + returnability.

Questions about unreturnability

What does unreturnability mean?
Unreturnability means the quality of being unreturnable.
What part of speech is unreturnability?
Unreturnability is a noun.

Words near unreturnability in the dictionary

  1. unretrievable
  2. unretrieved
  3. unretrofitted
  4. unretroflexed
  5. unretted
  6. unreturnability
  7. unreturnable
  8. unreturnably
  9. unreturned
  10. unreturning
  11. unreturningly

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