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UNADAPTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unadaptability mean? 

UNADAPTABILITY (noun)
  The noun UNADAPTABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstancesplay

  Familiarity information: UNADAPTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNADAPTABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unadaptability" is a kind of...):

inability; unfitness (lacking the power to perform)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unadaptability"):

inflexibility; rigidity; rigidness (the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe)

Antonym:

adaptability (the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances)

Derivation:

unadaptable (not adaptable)


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