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untrainability

untrainability noun: the state or condition of being untrainable.

Noun

untrainability (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being untrainable.
    • How much ‘general’ or ‘transferred’ training of memory is left after deducting the effects of better methods of learning, better adaptation to the conditions of the tests, and special practice within the tests themselves? The authors have no means of telling how much, nor even if there is any. The...1905 March 2, R[obert] S[essions] Woodworth, “Immediate Memory in School-Children. By W. H. Winch. […]”, in Frederick J[ames] E[ugene] Woodbridge, editor, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and...
    • As regards the element of parental emotional indulgence as a possible cause of the untrainability of the child a good deal might be said.1925, Bernard Glueck [Sr.], “The Psychopathology of Childhood”, in Isaac A[rthur] Abt, editor, Pediatrics, volume VII, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: W[alter] B[urns] Saunders Company, →OCLC, page 669
    Synonyms:
    untrainableness

Examples of untrainability in a sentence

  • The doctrine of the untrainability of pure memory remains as little disproven by the work of Ebert and Meumann as by that of Winch.1905 March 2, R[obert] S[essions] Woodworth, “Immediate Memory in School-Children. By W. H. Winch. […]”, in Frederick J[ames] E[ugene]...
  • In less enlightened times, everyone might have chalked up the behavior to canine willfulness, Murphy’s untrainability, or perhaps to whatever we were serving for breakfast.2009, Michael Schaffer, “Toy Town”, in One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and...

Synonyms of untrainability

Antonyms

Questions about untrainability

What does untrainability mean?
Untrainability means the state or condition of being untrainable.
How do you use untrainability in a sentence?
The doctrine of the untrainability of pure memory remains as little disproven by the work of Ebert and Meumann as by that of Winch.
What part of speech is untrainability?
Untrainability is a noun.

Words near untrainability in the dictionary

  1. untragic
  2. untragical
  3. untragically
  4. untrailed
  5. untrain
  6. untrainability
  7. untrainable
  8. untrainableness
  9. untrained
  10. untrainedness
  11. untraining

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