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n. - The state of being unable to achieve.

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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • That is the proof of its divine origin -- its unattainableness.
  • Is Olivia's unattainableness the main source of her desirableness for him?
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