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INAPPLICABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inapplicability mean?
• INAPPLICABILITY (noun)
The noun INAPPLICABILITY has 1 sense:
1. irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand
Familiarity information: INAPPLICABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("inapplicability" is a kind of...):
irrelevance; irrelevancy (the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand)
Antonym:
applicability (relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand)
Derivation:
inapplicable (not capable of being applied)
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