unattainableness
Americannoun
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Their glamorous aura of unattainableness makes them idols to millions of Japanese fans.
From Time Magazine Archive
All their fleecy softness, all their pink and purple and pearly beauty, all the mystery of their unattainableness, is weighed in the balance and found to be fog, and by no means unapproachable.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
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 Locke, John
Then he had that strong vein of prudence and caution, which, in view of Mary's unattainableness, would probably come to his help.
From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Major, Charles
Is Olivia's unattainableness the main source of her desirableness for him?
From Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Porter, Charlotte Endymion
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