Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being uncontrollable.
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- noun The state or quality of being
uncontrollable .
Etymologies
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From uncontrollable + -ness
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The application of the same term to the agencies on which human actions depend, as is used to express those agencies of nature which are really uncontrollable, can not fail, when habitual, to create a feeling of uncontrollableness in the former also.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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