inextricability
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- noun
- /ˌɪnɛkˈstrɪkəˌbɪlɪti/
- For Victorians, the inextricability of remembering and forgetting is by no means confined to aesthetic or technological realms; it has broader cultural significance.
Examples
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In her speech, she emphasized the inextricability of personal identity and community belonging.
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M'Gaw's frontier romance posits the inextricability of Johnny Appleseed and a distinctly American wilderness.
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Furthermore, a certain inextricability marks this connection.
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The "inextricability" of the two stories proposes the one, Berlioz's, as an exemplum of the other, Bidart's.
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The inextricability of land and water problems underscores the need for coordinating water-resources planning and management with land-use planning and regulation.
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In itself, Lindblom's point about the inextricability of means-ends inter-relationships is well recognized and was also made by some of his contemporaries (e.g., Wildavsky 1966, 299-300).
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The inextricability of social issues and economic policies makes solving them extremely challenging.
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The inextricability of language and culture means that learning one often involves understanding the other.
Synonyms
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Two or more things twisted together so they are hard to separate
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Cannot be separated into parts, for example rights or groups
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7.4
A situation where you cannot split people or things apart, like close friends
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A quality that is a natural, permanent part of something
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A situation people cannot end or break, often for agreements like marriage vows
Antonyms
How Inseparable
Surface Forms
Morphology
inextricability = inextricable (semi-transparent) = in + extricate + able + ity
Formation from 'inextricable' + '-ity' is regular, but the root verb 'extricate' and the intermediate adjective are relatively uncommon and may be unfamiliar to many learners.
Etymology
The word inextricability breaks down into in- ('not'), extricate ('to free or untangle'), and -ability ('the quality of'), so inextricability is the quality of being impossible to separate or escape, like a knot you cannot untie.