uncontrollableness

noun

uncontrollableness

noun

Etymology From uncontrollable + -ness.

1

The state or quality of being uncontrollable.

  • […] as to the advisability of marriage. On the whole, the young man is inclined to avoid the risks and dangers of conjugal life. However, he complains of the persistence and the uncontrollableness of his passions. He seems to think that he would be well off if he could be entirely free from them. He appeals to the physician for advice as to some method of freeing himself from his natural tendencies.1966, Edward Willis Scripps, edited by Oliver Knight, I Protest: Selected Disquisitions of E. W. Scripps, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 422:

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