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UNADAPTABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unadaptability mean?
• UNADAPTABILITY (noun)
The noun UNADAPTABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances
Familiarity information: UNADAPTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unadaptability" is a kind of...):
inability; unfitness (lacking the power to perform)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unadaptability"):
inflexibility; rigidity; rigidness (the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe)
Antonym:
adaptability (the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances)
Derivation:
unadaptable (not adaptable)
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