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lamentability en · NOUN

Etymology

From lament + -ability.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
    • Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator. 2000, Michael J. Meyer, Literature and Homosexuality, →ISBN, page 95:
    • The judge's wretchedness is a reflex of Augustine's skepticism about the possibility of justice in this world, and his deep conviction about the genuine lamentability of law's serious imperfections. 2001, Kevin Crotty, Law's Interior, →ISBN, page 137:
    • Mr. Bush . . ., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property(!) and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street. 1993, Judith Butler, “Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia”, in Robert Gooding-Williams, editor, Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising, digital, published 2009, →ISBN:

Synonyms

lamentableness