undesirability
- noun
- /ˌʌndɪˈzaɪərəˌbɪlɪti/
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indeseabilidad
- The undesirability of living in a noisy neighborhood made them search for a new home.
Examples
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The undesirability of excessive fees often discourages potential customers from using that service.
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The undesirability of fall-through logic and the coding to avoid it are usually understood by programmers with a few years' training and experience.
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I made the decision as to whether or not to discharge people for unsuitability and undesirability.
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Vague statements about the undesirability of various jobs, pursuits, hobbies, social relationships, and views would likely cause a similar reaction.
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The perceived undesirability of the school leads teachers, principals, and parents to look elsewhere for opportunities, creating further instability.
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The coalition arrayed against Iraq testified to the undesirability of that outcome.
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Any such requirement has the undesirability of making relief more difficult to obtain for those industries facing difficulties from a variety of sources, although these may be precisely those industries that are most vulnerable to injurious dumping.
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Popularity of elementary school students correlated negatively with judged undesirability of their names (Busse & Seraydarian, 1979).
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The nearly unanimous consensus against life tenure for state judges, both on the highest courts and on intermediate appellate courts, is telling, and it provides further evidence of the undesirability of maintaining a system of lifetime tenure in the present-day federal system.
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We believe that living in a culture that is preoccupied with thinness may have led to the low self-acceptance values that we found. Participants were continually bombarded by messages from media, health professionals, family, and peers about the undesirability of fatness.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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7.0
Not being suitable for a situation or place
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A state when people or rules do not allow something
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A state in which something is not right for a particular use or situation
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A behavior that people find morally wrong or offensive
A state that makes people feel offended or dislike something
An idea or decision that is hard to accept
A quality of being hard to accept in your mind or feelings
A state when something is not good enough for rules or standards
The state of not being right for a use or situation
The state of not being suitable for a situation or purpose
The quality of being inappropriate in behavior or appearance
A situation where something is not good enough
A situation when something is not a good idea
A situation that makes success unlikely
Antonyms
How Desirable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
undesirability = undesirable (transparent) = un + desire + ity
Formed by the regular noun-forming suffix '-ity' added to the adjective 'undesirable', which itself is transparently 'un-' + 'desirable'.
Etymology
Undesirability is built from un- 'not', desire 'want', and -ability 'quality', so it literally means the 'quality of not being wanted'. That's why undesirability describes something people see as unwanted or best avoided.