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Unattainableness   Listen
Unattainableness

noun
1.
The state of being unattainable.





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"Unattainableness" Quotes from Famous Books



... so distinct and singular an apparition; she seemed likelier to find her sisterhood in poetry and picture than in real life. Let us turn away from her, lest a touch too apt should compel her stately and cold and soft and womanly grace to gleam out upon my page with a strange repulsion and unattainableness in the very spell that made her beautiful. At her side, and familiarly attentive to her, sat a gentleman of whom I remember only a hard outline of the nose and forehead, and such a monstrous portent of a beard ...
— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne


Words linked to "Unattainableness" :   impossibleness, unattainable, impossibility


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