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unattainableness

American  
[uhn-uh-tayn-uh-buhl-nis] / ˌʌn əˈteɪn ə bəl nɪs /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being unattainable.


Example Sentences

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Their glamorous aura of unattainableness makes them idols to millions of Japanese fans.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is Olivia's unattainableness the main source of her desirableness for him?

From Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Porter, Charlotte Endymion

And only after the power of my reason, laboring over the unattainableness of my ideal, broke and relaxed, did I give myself over to a stream of thoughts.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

I do not see that however the unattainableness of the model may be demonstrated, that has anything to do with the duty of imitation.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander

Then he had that strong vein of prudence and caution, which, in view of Mary's unattainableness, would probably come to his help.

From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Major, Charles