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INADMISSIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inadmissibility mean?
• INADMISSIBILITY (noun)
The noun INADMISSIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible
Familiarity information: INADMISSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("inadmissibility" is a kind of...):
unacceptability; unacceptableness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inadmissibility"):
impermissibility (inadmissibility as a consequence of not being permitted)
Antonym:
admissibility (acceptability by virtue of being admissible)
Derivation:
inadmissible (not deserving to be admitted)
Context examples
The impossibility of her quitting her father, Mr. Knightley felt as strongly as herself; but the inadmissibility of any other change, he could not agree to.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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