lamentability

lamentability

English

Etymology

lament +‎ -ability

Noun

lamentability (uncountable)

1. The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
   • 1993, Judith Butler, "Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia" in Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (edited by Robert Gooding-Williams), 2009 digital edition, →ISBN, (Google preview):

     Mr. Bush . . ., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property(!) and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street.

   • 2000, Michael J. Meyer, Literature and Homosexuality, →ISBN, p. 95 (Google preview):

     Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator.

   • 2001, Kevin Crotty, Law's Interior, →ISBN, p. 137 (Google preview):

     The judge's wretchedness is a reflex of Augustine's skepticism about the possibility of justice in this world, and his deep conviction about the genuine lamentability of law's serious imperfections.

Synonyms

• lamentableness