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uncontrollableness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English uncontrollable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English uncontrollableness From uncontrollable + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being uncontrollable.
    • […] as to the advisability of marriage. On the whole, the young man is inclined to avoid the risks and dangers of conjugal life. However, he complains of the persistence and the uncontrollableness of his passions. He seems to think that he would be well off if he could be entirely free from them. He appeals to the physician for advice as to some method of freeing himself from his natural tendencies. 1966, Edward Willis Scripps, edited by Oliver Knight, I Protest: Selected Disquisitions of E. W. Scripps, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 422:

Coordinates

liberty · independence · sovereignty · freedom · autonomy · wildness

Synonyms

controllability · restrainability · ungovernableness · governableness · uncheckability · governability · checkability · uncontrollability · unconstrainedness · unrestrainability · constrainedness · ungovernability