MEANING
1. The difficulty or impossibility of reaching, entering, or obtaining something.
2. The difficulty of understanding language, ideas, or a work because they are not readily clear or approachable.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- inaccessibility of the site
- inaccessibility of services
On the page
The clinic's inaccessibility mattered more than its distance on the map.
Word forms
- Base
- inaccessibility
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, interpretation. Commonness: moderately common.
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