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UNRELIABILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trait of not being dependable or reliable
Synonyms:
undependability; undependableness; unreliability; unreliableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unreliability" is a kind of...):
irresponsibility; irresponsibleness (a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unreliability"):
instability (unreliability attributable to being unstable)
irreproducibility (the quality of being unreproducible)
fallibility (the likelihood of making errors)
Antonym:
reliability (the quality of being dependable or reliable)
Derivation:
unreliable (not worthy of reliance or trust)
unreliable (lacking a sense of responsibility)
