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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unavailableness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unavailable + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being unavailable.
    • I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic. 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 35, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 239: