INELIGIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ineligibility mean? 

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

1. the quality or state of being ineligible

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INELIGIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or state of being ineligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

making; qualification (an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something)

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

uninsurability (the quality of being uninsurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will refuse to issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company))

Antonym:

eligibility (the quality or state of being eligible)

Derivation:

ineligible (not eligible)

ineligible (prohibited by official rules)