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Meaning of "untenability" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNTENABILITY

untenability  [ʌnˌtɛnəˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNTENABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Untenability 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 UNTENABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of untenability in the English dictionary

The definition of untenability in the dictionary is the quality of being incapable of being maintained, defended, or vindicated.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNTENABILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNTENABILITY

unteachableness
unteam
untearable
untechnical
untellable
untemper
untempered
untempted
untenable
untenableness
untenably
untenant
untenantable
untenanted
untended
untender
untenderly
untent
untenty
untenured

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNTENABILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of untenability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «untenability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNTENABILITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

站不住脚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insostenibilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

untenability
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

untenability
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

untenability
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несостоятельность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

insustentabilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

untenability
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

insoutenable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak dapat dipertanggungjawabkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unhaltbarkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

untenability
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

untenability
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Untenability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

untenability
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிலைநிறுத்தப்படுத்த முடியாத விடையங்களை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असमर्थता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

untenability
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

insostenibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

untenability
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неспроможність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Inconsistența
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

untenability
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onverdedigbaarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ohållbarhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uholdbarhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of untenability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTENABILITY»

The term «untenability» is used very little and occupies the 170.772 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTENABILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «untenability» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «untenability» 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 untenability

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTENABILITY»

Discover the use of untenability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to untenability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The King Against Sir Charles Wolseley, Baronet, and Joseph ...
BRIEF REMARKS, TENDING TO SHOW THE UNTENABILITY OF THIS INDICTMENT. BY JEREMY BENTHAM, Eso., BENCHER or LINCOLN'S-INN. lunhuu : PRINTED BY JOHN M'CREERY, BLACK HORSE-COURT, FLEET- STREET. l 820.
Jeremy Bentham, George EDMONDS (of Birmingham.), Sir Charles WOLSELEY, 1820
2
Fire Test Methods, Restraint and Smoke
There appears to be exceptional agreement between the results of the test smoke measurements. The median value of untenability, as perceived by observers wearing self-contained breathing apparatus, was approximately 60 per cent ob- 20 ...
3
Proceedings of the 8th International Probabilistic Workshop
As the fire load only impacts the duration of the fire, it is assumed to have no significant influence on the times until untenability. Two additional parameters included are the yields for soot and carbon monoxide, which are values from the CFD ...
Pieter van Gelder, Lucjan Gucma, Dirk Proske, 2010
4
Proceedings of the 7th International Probabilistic Workshop: ...
A correlation analysis with subsequent hypothesis testing to a 95% significance level was carried out according to Equation 6 for the parameters to test for linear correlation with the times to untenability. The results show, that the fire load has ...
Pieter van Gelder, 2009
5
Evaluating Small Board and Care Homes: Sprinklered Vs. ...
The predicted smoke temperatures and gas concentrations for various rooms were then given to another mathematical model which predicted when untenability occurred. Overlaid on the timeline which predicts untenability was the time it ...
Scot Deal, U. S. Department of Commerce, U. S. Fire Administration, 2013
6
The Seven Great Untenables: Sapta-vidhā Anupapatti
Objection 5 42 J. Reply 5 42 K. Objection 6 43 L. Reply 6 44 Chapter Three— THE UNTENABILITY OF OBSCURATION 45 46 46 47 49 49 51 53 53 54 55 55 56 56 56 57 Chapter Four— THE UNTENABILITY OF AVIDYA'S NATURE 1.
John A. Grimes, 1990
7
Improving Regulation: "Cases in Environment, Health, and Safety"
For example, Figure 11-6 is a CDF of the difference in time to untenability provided by design 1 minus the time to untenability provided by design 2 for each fire scenario. It shows that the chance that design 1 will provide a longer time to ...
Paul S. Professor Fischbeck, R. Scott Professor Farrow, 2010
8
Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities
UNTENABILITY. OF. BACHELOR. DOMESTICITY?: QUEER. SPACES. AND. EUGENE. WRAYBURN'S. DEATHBED. CONVERSION. In Our Mutual Friend Dickens offers a more tragic rendering of the difficulty of establishing a domestic space ...
Holly Furneaux, 2009
9
The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume: ...
5. The. untenability. of. the. realist. regularity. theory. of. causation. The regularity theory of causation, in its ordinary, straightforwardly realist version, is the theory that asserts, bizarrely and dramatically, that (1) there is indeed an external world  ...
Galen Strawson, 2014
10
The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical ...
The. moral. untenability. of. the. deterrence-oriented. rationale. Legion are the shortcomings in the empirical presuppositions of the deterrence- orientedjustification ofcapital punishment, but they are only a secondary concern in this chapter.
Matthew Kramer, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNTENABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term untenability is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The folly of a Hughesville campus for the College of Southern …
... support this astonishing drain on the public purse despite its manifest untenability. Although alternative sites are available, including 15 acres of donated land, ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
Poll: A Majority of Republicans Would Attend Same-Sex Wedding
What the gay wedding question really illustrates, then, is the totally untenability of the current moderate Republican line of same-sex marriage: We “respect” your ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
3
Are Republicans still going to talk about entitlements?
And finally, the political untenability of cutting the safety net while leaving upper-middle class and wealthy Americans' benefits untouched cannot be stressed ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
4
The Residential Building: Our Enemy
Examining the times to untenability gives the best-case scenario of how coordinated the attack needs to be. The average time for every experiment, from the time ... «FireEngineering.com, Nov 14»
5
Rome's Rapid Downward Course by Dr. J. Joseph Overbeck (1820 …
In 1865, convinced of the equal untenability and imminent collapse of both Papism and Protestantism, and sure of the Truth of the Orthodox Faith, he was ... «NFTU, Nov 14»
6
On the death penalty, LESSONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Now, with the untenability of apartheid finally apparent to the ruling minority, the end of racial segregation was finally in view. Amid gross violence by the state, ... «Concord Monitor, Apr 14»
7
Disney Interactive co-president John Pleasants resigns
Disney Interactive co-president John Pleasants has tendered his resignation, citing the untenability of twin leadership. Pleasants's resignation is effective as of ... «VG247, Nov 13»
8
As Hamas's Popularity Plummets, Its Domestic Control Slips
The untenability of those claims made Hamas's popularity precarious, and several dynamics since then have contributed to a percipitous decline in the group's ... «The Tower, Aug 13»
9
Apple import veto risks undermining patent protection push
“The decision shows the untenability of stringent IPRs to which so many US trading partners have objected on social welfare grounds. The onus is now on [Mr] ... «Financial Times, Aug 13»
10
The realities of spy fiction
On the contrary, The Quiet American had insight into the frailties of the early 1950s CIA and the untenability of US intervention in Vietnam. Alden Pyle, its ... «OUPblog, Jun 13»

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