undependableness

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undependableness

The manager noted the employee's undependableness in the report.

Definition

Noun: - The quality or state of being undependable; unreliability: The trait of not being dependable or reliable, meaning a person or thing cannot be consistently trusted to perform as needed or expected.

Usage

This noun describes an inherent characteristic or quality. It is a formal term often used in analytical, psychological, or evaluative contexts to discuss the lack of reliability in a person's character, a system's performance, or an object's function.

Examples
  • The chronic undependableness of the public transportation system frustrated commuters.
  • His promotion was denied due to a well-documented history of undependableness and missed deadlines.
  • The study examined the correlation between a person's perceived undependableness and their social relationships.
Advanced Usage
  • Conceptual Use: The term can be applied abstractly to concepts like information or data sources.
    • The undependableness of the early reports made it difficult to form an accurate conclusion.
Variants and Related Words
  • Undependable (adjective): Not reliable; not worthy of trust or reliance.
    • an undependable source of information
  • Dependableness (noun): The quality of being dependable. (Antonym)
  • Undependability (noun): A more common synonym for , identical in meaning.
Synonyms
  • Unreliability
  • Untrustworthiness
  • Inconstancy
Antonyms
  • Dependableness
  • Reliability
  • Trustworthiness
  • Steadiness
undependableness

The manager noted the employee's undependableness in the report.

Noun
  1. the trait of not being dependable or reliable