Definition of "unattainableness" []

• The condition of being unattainable (noun)

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• "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."
• "Thank you for your smiles, for your wandering eyes, for your surf static, for your unattainableness, for your encouragement, for your attraction, for every look you ever gave me and every time you ever thought about me."
• "Let us turn away from her, lest a touch too apt should compel her stately and cold and soft and womanly grace to gleam out upon my page with a strange repulsion and unattainableness in the very spell that made her beautiful."