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inconsolability

  • a word derived from consolability.
    consolability
    noun
    the quality of being able to be consoled.
  • a word derived from inconsolable.
    inconsolable
    adjective
    not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate.

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She’s so inconsolable that she becomes less a character than a leaden symbol of inconsolability.

From Washington Post Aug. 6, 2021

It may run against your parenting or loving instincts, especially when the key signifier of someone enduring a night terror is their inconsolability, but you should not try to console them.

From The Guardian Feb. 1, 2016

He was a master at using familiar realistic detail to divine the hidden currents of fear and inconsolability.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the inconsolability of Dora— "If I did come she would be bored to death," said I. "She is willing to risk it."

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

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