inaccessibility

English

Etymology

From Middle French inaccessibilité, from Latin inaccessibilitas.

Noun

inaccessibility (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.

   Antonym: accessibility

   1. (social model of disability) Such a state in the built environment, commerce, or civics that represents a shortcoming in what society has yet achieved to accommodate the impairments that some of its members have.

      Antonym: accessibility

      Coordinate terms: disability; impairment

Derived terms

• North Pole of inaccessibility

 

Translations

quality or state of being inaccessible

• Azerbaijani: əlçatmazlıq
• Bulgarian: недостъпност (bg) f (nedostǎpnost)
• Catalan: inaccessibilitat f
• Finnish: luoksepääsemättömyys
• French: inaccessibilité (fr) f
• Galician: inaccesibilidade (gl) f
• Greek: έλειψη προσβασιμότητας f (éleipsi prosvasimótitas)
• Irish: neamh-inrochtaineacht f
• Manx: neuroshtynid m, neuventynys m
• Russian: недосту́пность (ru) (nedostúpnostʹ)
• Spanish: inaccesibilidad (es) f

References

• “inaccessibility”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “inaccessibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.