Definition of "unattainability" [unattainability]

• The fact of being unattainable, of not being able to be reached or acquired. (noun)

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• "Reteaming with director James Gray for the third time, the actor lays bare the soul of a troubled romantic torn between settling for the “right girl” (a fetching family friend, played by Vinessa Shaw, with the maternal instincts to handle his depressive tendencies) and chasing after the wrong one (Gwyneth Paltrow, delivering her most nuanced performance yet as a woman whose allure rests in her very unattainability)."
• "Many of my generation were raised with a rigid idea about what we were supposed to look like -- and with its evil twin, the unattainability of that image."
• "The attraction of red-eyed, sneezing women, according to Milton Ornstein, a professor of psychology at Brandeis University, lies in their unattainability."