unsustainability
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- noun
- /ˌʌn.səˌsteɪ.nəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
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insostenibilidad
- The unsustainability of current farming practices threatens food security for future generations.
- the unsustainability of the current
It's, it does seem, it seems to me like there's, there's like there's several different layers of like unsustainability with this country right now.
- It's, it does seem, it seems to me like there's, there's like there's several different layers of like unsustainability with this country right now.
- We do not hear end war and the unsustainability and end the stalemates.
- I hate hazard, I hate unsustainability.
Examples
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Somewhere on the learning curve of cattle production, the unsustainability of life as I knew it became painfully obvious.
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Economic development that encroaches on the latter runs the risk of ultimately creating unsustainability.
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But the basically unsustainability of government debts will just continue to be OK until it's not.
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So yeah, it's fun to play the tension of the moment and the unsustainability of the relationship.
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In fact, many designers point out that decreasing unsustainability does not create sustainability.
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Although I am dissatisfied with society's unsustainability, I feel powerless to do much about it.
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Scientists can no longer hide behind reductionism to avoid being confronted with the unpleasant reality of the unsustainability of the current pattern of technological development.
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The Shanghai Grand Theatre is thus symbolic of the current paradox of cultural sustainability and unsustainability that accompanies the making of a grand cultural monument in Shanghai.
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The irrational unsustainability of overly complex manipulative societies is the result of massive industrial-scale failures of imagination.
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Though under all three thresholds, Iraq's indebtedness is unsustainable, the number of years during which the unsustainability prevails is higher with the lower threshold.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
The state of something that cannot be defended or shown to be right
Antonyms
How Sustainable
Surface Forms
Morphology
unsustainability = unsustainable (transparent) = un + sustain + able + ity
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ity' to the familiar adjective 'unsustainable', which itself is analyzable as 'un-' + 'sustainable'.
Etymology
Unsustainability breaks into un- ('not'), sustain ('hold up' or 'keep going') and -ability ('can be'). So unsustainability means 'not able to be held up or kept going', which is why we use it for things that cannot continue over time.