UNSATISFACTORINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsatisfactoriness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSATISFACTORINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being inadequate or unsuitable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

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

inadequacy; inadequateness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate)

perishability; perishableness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction)

unacceptability; unacceptableness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards)

Antonym:

satisfactoriness (the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement)

Derivation:

unsatisfactory (not giving satisfaction)