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UNAPPROACHABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unapproachability mean?
• UNAPPROACHABILITY (noun)
The noun UNAPPROACHABILITY has 1 sense:
1. a disposition to be unapproachable; unfriendly and inaccessible
Familiarity information: UNAPPROACHABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disposition to be unapproachable; unfriendly and inaccessible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unapproachability" is a kind of...):
aloofness; remoteness; standoffishness; withdrawnness (a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner)
Antonym:
approachability (the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with)
Derivation:
unapproachable (discouraging intimacies; reserved)
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