Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being inapplicable; unsuitableness.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state of being inapplicable
- n. countable Something inapplicable
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand
Examples
“What's so remarkable about the current events in Egypt are the inapplicability of our categories to them.”
“For me, the FIRST mindblowing thing I noticed was the inapplicability of Mammoth here. 21 stories is NOT mammoth.”
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
“Davis, demonstrates the inapplicability of the VRA today, the authors seem unconcerned that, paralleling their proffered criticism of the VRA itself, they are applying a ten-year-old decision written for a different era and for vastly different circumstances.”
“Any analysis into the purpose or legislative history would establish its inapplicability even without resort to the rule of leniency.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up — Sestak Edition
“We'd lose some things due to inapplicability of the argument without the value judgment, but we'd also be less reversible.”
“It's wonderful how you cite international law when it suits you and excuse its inapplicability when it suits you too.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Suzanne Peppers offers a very interesting article in Hong Kong Journal on the inapplicability of Hong Kong's system of Chinese rule to Taiwan.”
“I read a very thorough refutation of it, that to me boiled down to the confusion between things that may exist, and things that do exist, and the inapplicability of statistics to discern between such.”
“I am curious to know whether any of our constitutional law scholars think there could conceivably be implications, despite the apparent inapplicability of the Constitutional provisions at issue.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Comstock Federal Power Case:
“Geneva Convention inapplicability of unread by administration”
Simon & Schuster: Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inapplicability’.
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
I'm tagging all words ...inapplicability, unsatisfactorily, heterogeneity, disintermediation, antiglobalization, telecommunication, interdisciplinary, meteorological, socioeconomic, intelligibility, autobiographical, industrialization and 423 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Ultrafrow
Superpowers that are incredibly useless or even self-damaging.
imitatability, uncopyrightability, swallowability, unremarkability, superserviceable, intransigent, inenarrability, polysemania, accountability, face-melting, insufferability, hyperinflation and 46 more...
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seven syllables
transdifferentiation, parthenogenetically, monocotyledonous, sesquicentennial, quasiperiodically, invariability, indestructibility, catazonasulculate, pseudo-etymology, paraetymology, triskaidekaphobia, epidemiology and 204 more...
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