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nonadoptability en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + adoptability or nonadoptable + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonadoptable.
    • Medicaid eligibility can mean the difference between adoptability and nonadoptability. 2008, Representing the Child Client - Volume 1, pages 4-135:
    • While never exact, “nonadoptability” fused the racial, the social, and the moral to render certain kinds, and colours, of children permanently nonadoptable. 2008, Magda Fahrni, Robert Rutherdale, Creating Postwar Canada, page 271:
    • Under this view, where the nonadoptability is discovered after a termination decree has been granted, the decree would be subject to revocation. 1960, Edith Glicksman Neisser, George H. Weber, Helen Rankin Jeter, Phenylketonuria, page 13:
    • The nonadoptability of some options like economic threshold and biological control in rice farms with today's knowledge and development is demonstrated. 2009, S.M. Reddy, H. N. Gour, Integrated Plant Pathology, page 30: