UNRELIABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unreliability mean? 

• UNRELIABILITY (noun)
  The noun UNRELIABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the trait of not being dependable or reliable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNRELIABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of not being dependable or reliable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

undependability; undependableness; unreliability; unreliableness

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

irresponsibility; irresponsibleness (a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions)

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

instability (unreliability attributable to being unstable)

irreproducibility (the quality of being unreproducible)

fallibility (the likelihood of making errors)

Antonym:

reliability (the quality of being dependable or reliable)

Derivation:

unreliable (not worthy of reliance or trust)

unreliable (lacking a sense of responsibility)