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INACCESSIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inaccessibility mean?
• INACCESSIBILITY (noun)
The noun INACCESSIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of not being available when needed
Familiarity information: INACCESSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being available when needed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
inaccessibility; unavailability
Hypernyms ("inaccessibility" is a kind of...):
inconvenience (the quality of not being useful or convenient)
Antonym:
accessibility (the quality of being at hand when needed)
Derivation:
inaccessible (not capable of being obtained)
Context examples
It has since seen a resurgence partly due to vaccine hesitancy and vaccine inaccessibility.
(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)
Observing the glaciers from ground level is difficult because of their huge geographic expanse and inaccessibility, so the researchers turned to satellite images.
(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)
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