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unattainableness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being unattainable, or beyond reach.

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  • noun The condition of being unattainable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being unattainable

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Examples

  • Thank you for your smiles, for your wandering eyes, for your surf static, for your unattainableness, for your encouragement, for your attraction, for every look you ever gave me and every time you ever thought about me.

    dear mister. k3schmadical 2007

  • Desire also is stopped or abated by the opinion of the impossibility or unattainableness of the good proposed, as far as the uneasiness is cured or allayed by that consideration.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Let us turn away from her, lest a touch too apt should compel her stately and cold and soft and womanly grace to gleam out upon my page with a strange repulsion and unattainableness in the very spell that made her beautiful.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

  • For to its other attractions the prospect added that of impossibility, of unattainableness.

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • His disappointment was so bitter now, his hopes of winning Crystal and glory had been so bright, that he found it quite impossible to go back to the hard facts of life -- to his own poverty and the unattainableness of Crystal de Cambray -- without making a great effort to win back what Victor de Marmont had just wrested from him.

    The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • It was the unattainableness of her, the impossibility of a fruition of love that slowly and surely removed her.

    The Day of the Beast Zane Grey 1905

  • And Joan, who knew that her power now lay in her unattainableness, feigned a wavering reluctance, when in truth any surrender was impossible.

    The Border Legion Zane Grey 1905

  • For to its other attractions the prospect added that of impossibility, of unattainableness.

    The Mountains 1904

  • Is Olivia's unattainableness the main source of her desirableness for him?

    Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Charlotte Endymion Porter 1900

  • That is the proof of its divine origin -- its unattainableness.

    The Untroubled Mind 1896

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