inamicability

The quality of being inamicable.

Noun

  1. The quality of being inamicable.
    • The later movement of European Enlightenment also stressed the proven merits of every individual, rather than the supposed inamicability of his race. - 1974, “The Promise of Emancipation: Toleration or Equality”, in The...
    • Ancestral ties such as existed between Crows and Hidatsas contributed to the sharing of costume ideas. Inamicability, for example between the neighboring Blackfoot and Plains Cree tribes, slowed such an exchange. -...
    • These stress the inamicability, the pain inflicted by nature upon man, or rather, nature’s capacity to prevent human beings from working their will upon nature. - 1985, Jon Christopher Crocker, “Raka and Aroe: The...

    Synonyms: unamicability

Origin

From in- + amicability, after inamicable. Piecewise doublet of inamiability, inimicability, unamiability, and unamicability.