nonadoptability

nonadoptability

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ adoptability or nonadoptable +‎ -ity.

Noun

nonadoptability (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being nonadoptable.
    • 1960, Edith Glicksman Neisser, George H. Weber, Helen Rankin Jeter, Phenylketonuria, page 13:
      Under this view, where the nonadoptability is discovered after a termination decree has been granted, the decree would be subject to revocation.
    • 2008, Magda Fahrni, Robert Rutherdale, Creating Postwar Canada, page 271:
      While never exact, “nonadoptability” fused the racial, the social, and the moral to render certain kinds, and colours, of children permanently nonadoptable.
    • 2008, Representing the Child Client - Volume 1, pages 4-135:
      Medicaid eligibility can mean the difference between adoptability and nonadoptability.
    • 2009, S.M. Reddy, H. N. Gour, Integrated Plant Pathology, page 30:
      The nonadoptability of some options like economic threshold and biological control in rice farms with today's knowledge and development is demonstrated.
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