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unassessability en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + assessability.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being incapable of being assessed, evaluated, or pondered.
    • Lord Denning MR had based his objections, in Courtney and Fairbairn Ltd v Tolaini Brothers (Hotels) Ltd, on the unassessability of damages. 1992, Jeff Cumberbatch, “In Freedom's Cause: The Contract to Negotiate”, in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, volume 12, number 4, page 587:
    • I also admit to a certain suspicion of evaluations, partly out of ignorance of the techniques and the machinery involved, and partly out of a perverse pride in the slowly dying academic legend about the royal subjectivity and therefore unassessability of the English discipline—especially where writing is concerned. 1966, John Portz, "A Composition Institute," New Trends in English Education-Selected Addresses Delivered at the Conference on English Education, vol. 4, National Council of Teachers of English, p. 77 (Google search result)
    • The rationale for the rule excluding hearsay evidence—the unassessability of such evidence—also underlies Glithero J .'s ruling. 1996, Canadian Criminal Cases—Third Series, volume 106, page 127:

Synonyms

imponderability · incalculability · imponderableness