English Explanatory Dictionary

untranslatability

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality or property of being untranslatable; inability to be translated.
  2. The inability of meaning to be transferred from one language to another without undergoing fundamental change.

Word forms

untranslatability

Etymology

From untranslatable + -ity.

Synonyms

intranslatability untranslatableness

Antonyms

translatability translatableness

Translations

Belarusian: неперакладальнасць Chinese Mandarin: 不可譯性 /不可译性 Dutch: onvertaalbaarheid Finnish: kääntymättömyys French: intraductibilité French: intraduisibilité German: Unübersetzbarkeit Hungarian: lefordíthatatlanság Russian: непереводи́мость Volapük: netradutov
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