Unreturnability

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being unreturnable. uncountable

    "The opponent who answers the service, if he or she is able to return it, is now in a position to address the server, and he or she, too, will seek to imbue the return not only with answerability—that is, by sticking to the rules of the game like putting the return within the boundaries, for instance—but also with unreturnability."

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"The opponent who answers the service, if he or she is able to return it, is now in a position to address the server, and he or she, too, will seek to imbue the return not only with answerability—that is, by sticking to the rules of the game like putting the return within the boundaries, for instance—but also with unreturnability."

Etymology

From un- + returnability.

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