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unsharable

unsharable

1 5.4
Other people cannot give or use it
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈʃɛrəbəl/
: incompartible
  • Only then could my father begin to share that which was previously unsharable.

Examples

  • He had a secret that was unsharable, something he wanted to keep just for himself.

  • The sovereignty of each state is an integral whole that is indivisible and unsharable.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Still unsharable, yet the question of its sharing is raised before the unreal: "If we did hear a voice other than our own through our throat, we would be terrified."

    Academic text (1998)
  • In fact, those women historians who come from a "historic" feminist experience make use of a language, or rather a jargon, that is often cryptic, one alien to us because it implies the experience lived by other women who are not like us; thus, its very language ensures that it remains unsharable.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Her feelings about the situation were deeply personal and unsharable with anyone else.

  • The artist believed that the meaning behind her work was unsharable and could only be understood on a personal level.

Synonyms

uncommunicable
vsunsharable
1 8.1

Something that you cannot explain or share with other people

is about being impossible to make available to others
undisclosable
vsunsharable
1 6.9

You cannot share this information with people outside a company

is about being impossible to make available to others

Antonyms

1 3.4

Made so several people can divide and eat it, like a dish

How Shareable

public
∞ 1.0
shareable
  • Texting
1 3.5
private
∞ 1.8
unsharable
1 5.4

Surface Forms

unsharable positive

Morphology

unsharable = shareable (transparent) = un + share + able

A standard negative prefix 'un-' is attached to the adjective 'shareable' (share + -able), yielding 'not able to be shared', which is directly derivable.

Etymology

Unsharable is made from the parts un- meaning 'not', share meaning 'give or use with others', and -able meaning 'able to be'. So, unsharable means 'not able to be shared', which is why we use it for things you cannot share with others.