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UNDEPENDABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undependability mean? 

UNDEPENDABILITY (noun)
  The noun UNDEPENDABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the trait of not being dependable or reliableplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


UNDEPENDABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of not being dependable or reliable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

undependability; undependableness; unreliability; unreliableness

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

irresponsibility; irresponsibleness (a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions)

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

instability (unreliability attributable to being unstable)

irreproducibility (the quality of being unreproducible)

fallibility (the likelihood of making errors)

Antonym:

dependability (the quality of being dependable or reliable)

Derivation:

undependable (not worthy of reliance or trust)


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