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Meaning of "unpunctuality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNPUNCTUALITY

unpunctuality  [ˌʌnpʌŋktjʊˈælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNPUNCTUALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unpunctuality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNPUNCTUALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Punctuality

Punctuality is the characteristic of being able to complete a required task or fulfill an obligation before or at a previously designated time. "Punctual" is often used synonymously with "on time". It is a common misconception that punctual can also, when talking about grammar, mean "to be accurate". According to each culture, there is often an understanding about what is considered an acceptable degree of punctuality. Usually, a small amount of lateness is acceptable; this is commonly about ten or fifteen minutes in Western cultures, but this is not the case in such instances as doctor's appointments or school lessons. In some cultures, such as Japanese society, and settings, such as military ones, expectations may be much stricter. Some cultures have an unspoken understanding that actual deadlines are different from stated deadlines; for example, it may be understood in a particular culture that people will turn up an hour later than advertised. In this case, since everyone understands that a 9 am meeting will actually start at around 10 am, no-one is inconvenienced when everyone arrives at 10 am.

Definition of unpunctuality in the English dictionary

The definition of unpunctuality in the dictionary is the quality of not doing something or arriving somewhere at the right time.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNPUNCTUALITY


accentuality
ækˌsɛntʃʊˈælɪtɪ
actuality
ˌæktʃʊˈælɪtɪ
asexuality
ˌeɪsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
conceptuality
kənˌsɛptjʊˈælɪtɪ
effectuality
ɪˌfektʃʊˈælɪtɪ
eventuality
ɪˌvɛntʃʊˈælɪtɪ
heterosexuality
ˌhɛtərəʊˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
homosexuality
ˌhəʊməʊˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
individuality
ˌɪndɪˌvɪdjʊˈælɪtɪ
ineffectuality
ˌɪnɪˌfɛktʃʊˈælɪtɪ
intellectuality
ˌɪntɪˌlɛktʃʊˈælɪtɪ
mutuality
ˌmjuːtjʊˈælɪtɪ
punctuality
ˌpʌŋktʃʊˈælɪtɪ
sensuality
ˌsɛnsjʊˈælɪtɪ
sexuality
ˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
spirituality
ˌspɪrɪtjʊˈælɪtɪ
tactuality
ˌtæktjʊˈælɪtɪ
transsexuality
ˌtrænzˌseksjʊˈælɪtɪ
virtuality
ˌvɜːtʃʊˈælɪtɪ
visuality
ˌvɪzjʊˈælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNPUNCTUALITY

unpublicised
unpublicized
unpublishable
unpublished
unpucker
unpulled
unpunctual
unpunctuated
unpunishable
unpunishably
unpunished
unpurchasable
unpurchaseable
unpurchased
unpurely
unpurged
unpurified
unpurposed
unpurse
unpursued

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNPUNCTUALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
speciality
vitality

Synonyms and antonyms of unpunctuality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unpunctuality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNPUNCTUALITY

Find out the translation of unpunctuality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unpunctuality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unpunctuality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不守时
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

impuntualidad
570 millions of speakers

English

unpunctuality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unpunctuality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unpunctuality
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

unpunctuality
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

impontualidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

unpunctuality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le manque de ponctualité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak bersalah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unpünktlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

unpunctuality
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unpunctuality
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unpunctuality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unpunctuality
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unpunctuality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अप्रतिष्ठितता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

unpunctuality
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mancanza di puntualità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niepunktualności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

unpunctuality
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unpunctuality
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unpunctuality
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unpunctuality
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unpunctuality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unpunctuality
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unpunctuality

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNPUNCTUALITY»

The term «unpunctuality» is used very little and occupies the 163.635 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of unpunctuality
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNPUNCTUALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unpunctuality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unpunctuality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unpunctuality

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNPUNCTUALITY»

Discover the use of unpunctuality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unpunctuality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Queues
(iv) Regular arrivals with unpunctuality Suppose that customers have appointments to arrive at equally spaced intervals a, but are unpunctual. More precisely assume that the nth customer, scheduled to arrive at time na, actually arrives at ...
D.R. Cox, Walter Smith, 1991
2
Committees and Commissions in Pre-independence India, ...
Unpunctuality 277. The Committee found evidence of great unpunctuality in the attendance at courts and offices, and it is clear that both officers and establishment leave much to be desired in this respect. This discounts to a great extent ...
M. Anees Chishti, 2001
3
Summa Theologiae
... unpunctuality in the world independent of the unpunctuality of Smith, Jones, and Robinson, and unpunctuality has no history other than the biographies of unpunctual men. But we think of physics and botany quite differently, as being ...
Thomas Aquinas, Anthony Kenny, 1990
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Collected Essays 1929 - 1968: Collected Papers
least two sorts of objects, namely, particular like Jones and Smith, and 'universals ' like unpunctuality and virtue. But absurdities soon crop up.Itis obviously silly tospeak of a universal meriting reproof. Youcanno morepraise orblame a ...
Gilbert Ryle, 2009
5
Plato on Punishment
However, for two reasons this seems to be a faulty view of Plato's analogy. The first is that Plato himself does not specify the disease, as Gosling's particularised argument requires: Plato does not exclude pathological unpunctuality or cancer.
Mary Margaret Mackenzie, 1981
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Twentieth-Century Philosophy
You can no more praise or blame an 'universal' than you can make holes in the Equator. Nor when we say 'unpunctuality is reprehensible' do we really suppose that unpunctuality ought to be ashamed of itself. What we do mean is what is also  ...
Morris Weitz, 1966
7
Mediation: Why People Fight and how to Help Them Stop
Unpunctuality: Unpunctuality emerges as a problem in marital mediation in three ways: - if one party is consistently unpunctual in coming to mediation sessions; - if one (let us assume, Dad, as this is how it most often happens) is consistently ...
Michael Williams, 1998
8
Issues in Urban Policy and Planning: 2013 Edition
According to news reporting originating in Surrey, United Kingdom, by VerticalNews journalists, researchers stated “The 'soft' cost of delay - for example, loss of market share due to unpunctuality - is a dominant component in the economics of ...
‎2013
9
The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method
Nor when we say "unpunctuality is reprehensible" do we really suppose that unpunctuality ought to be ashamed of itself. What we do mean is what is also meant but better expressed by "Whoever is un- punctual deserves that other people ...
Richard Rorty, 1992
10
F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers
For example, in ' Unpunctuality is a fault' the subject is itself an adjective — the quality of unpunctuality. There is thus a want of symmetry between substantives and adjectives, for while a predicate must be an adjective, a subject may be either ...
F. P. Ramsey, D. H. Mellor, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNPUNCTUALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unpunctuality is used in the context of the following news items.
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Praise, $$ for cops who took no leave
... fall prey to habitual irregularity as it pertains to their time of arrival and departure, as well as those who have become notorious for their unpunctuality,” he said. «Trinidad News, Jul 15»
2
Unpunctuality at Civil Service
Most people at work - I said most and not all – pull the hours' hand back, that is to say they come late to work, even if for some few minutes;they detached away ... «Sudan Vision, Jun 15»
3
'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein' Actress Divyanka Tripathi Miffed With Co-star …
According to reports, Divyanka is so miffed with Karan's unpunctuality that she has told the production house that she will come on the sets of "Yeh Hai ... «International Business Times, India Edition, May 15»
4
Teaching Service Commission demotes three headteachers
There were also 27 cases of irregularity- persistent unpunctuality by some teachers. The TSC is concerned about this particular issue as punctuality is ... «Stabroek News, Apr 15»
5
Katrina Kaif Can't Tolerate Unpunctuality, Fires Her Make Up Man
Katrina Kaif is often touted as one of the most polite albeit private stars in the Bollywood film industry. Recently, it seems like the actress has run out of patience. «Movie Talkies, Jan 15»
6
PM Modi's Independence Day Speech: Who Said What
... potential as a manufacturing hub, the lack of toilets and the unpunctuality of most government officials -- received generally positive reviews from most people. «NDTV, Aug 14»
7
What You Should Know About Negotiating With Japanese
What it means is that you speak in a disparaging manner about your unpunctuality or poor hospitality or any other personal defect you can think of. For instance ... «Business Insider, May 14»
8
TSC to Education Ministry: Move fast on delinquent teachers
“That is another area of weakness with principals and staff in terms of reporting issues that deal with absenteeism and unpunctuality.” Gopeesingh said every ... «Trinidad Guardian, Apr 14»
9
Council to begin Male school bus service 'soon'
... for this endeavour is due to the complaints regarding the unpunctuality of the local bus transport and the fact that school children also board the local buses. «haveeruonline, Mar 14»
10
Henry Blofeld: Kevin Pietersen affair 'a case of leopards and spots'
When a newspaper interview features unpunctuality, it is usually on the part of the talent. Not this time. I am supposed to be interviewing Henry Blofeld, the day ... «The Independent, Feb 14»

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