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unarguability en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₂érǵus Proto-Italic *argusder.? Latin arguōder. Old French arguerbor. Middle English arguen English argue Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English arguability English unarguability From un- + arguability.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being unarguable.
    • During the prevailing stylistic profusion and confusion, this architecture seems to have obtained an authority among both clients and critics through the apparent unarguability of technological logic. 2009, Patrick Goode, Stanford Anderson, Colin St. John Wilson, The Oxford Companion to Architecture, page 616: