inapplicability
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Government lawyers have defended the legality of these purchases—and the inapplicability of Carpenter—by arguing that the government is a customer like any other.
From Slate ● May 9, 2022
Their inapplicability deeply embarrasses us whenever we come to recognize that we are not who and what we say we are.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2017
For the common sense, although it may see the practical inapplicability of the dictates of the imagination or abstract reason, yet cannot help submitting to them.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One of the evils of an abstract or remote external aim in education is that its very inapplicability in practice is likely to react into a haphazard snatching at immediate conditions.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
The inapplicability of these observations of the author to the present time is a good measure of the material progress of India since his day.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman