unattainableness
Americannoun
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Their glamorous aura of unattainableness makes them idols to millions of Japanese fans.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Joan, who knew that her power now lay in her unattainableness, feigned a wavering reluctance, when in truth any surrender was impossible.
From The Border Legion by Zane Grey
It was the unattainableness of her, the impossibility of a fruition of love that slowly and surely removed her.
From The Day of the Beast by Zane Grey
Now, stung by the lash of her scorn, the sheer fact of her unattainableness seemed to redouble her charm.
From The Tigress by Anne Warner
Desire also is stopped or abated by the opinion of the impossibility or unattainableness of the good proposed, as far as the uneasiness is cured or allayed by that consideration.
From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke
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