ungovernability
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8.9
- noun
- /ʌnˌɡɜrnəˈbɪləti/
- Formal
:
ingobernabilidad
- The increased crime rate and political instability contributed to a sense of ungovernability in the city.
Examples
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For cadres, unruliness and ungovernability are problems that must be overcome.
Blog text (5) -
So will America follow California into ungovernability?
Blog text (8) -
"It had degenerated into a melee of "warring cultural and ethnic groups," with "ungovernability" just around the corner.
Academic text (2009) -
Would they be viable as societies and nation-states, or would they break down into chaos, ungovernability, and civil war? What was the best political and economic system for achieving viability and avoiding breakdown?
Academic text (1999) -
When U.S. policy ineptness, overreaching, conflict, and sometimes too-heavy-handedness are added to the possibilities for fragmentation and ungovernability in Mexico itself, they become truly frightening indeed.
Academic text (2000) -
Girls have been singled out for sexual activity and their allied behaviors (curfew, incorrigibility, ungovernability) and referred to criminal justice authorities by distraught parents, school personnel, medical practitioners, and social service agencies for a hundred years.
Academic text (2004) -
After years of civil unrest, the nation faced a situation of ungovernability, making it difficult to establish a stable government.
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The lack of effective leadership led to ungovernability in the region, resulting in widespread protests and disorder.
Synonyms
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9.6
A situation in which something is hard to change or control
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A situation when something cannot be stopped or managed
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7.2
A tendency to be difficult to control and to disobey rules
A situation or thing that people cannot control
The quality of being very difficult to manage or control
Antonyms
How Governable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
ungovernability = ungovernable (transparent) = un + govern + able + ity
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ity' to 'ungovernable'; the meaning 'state of being ungovernable' follows regularly.
Etymology
Ungovernability breaks into un- 'not', govern 'to steer or control' like a governor who guides a country, and -ability 'the ability to be'. So it means 'not able to be controlled'.