Inadjudicability

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The state or condition of being unable to be settled or decided by a legal judgment or formal adjudication; the quality of being beyond the reach of judicial resolution; an inability to conclusively determine a dispute through court processes
2. The characteristic of a matter that cannot be definitively resolved by a court or judge; the incapacity to reach a final legal decision; the state of being not subject to formal determination in a judicial context
3. The condition describing cases or issues that defy definitive rulings by a tribunal or judge; lack of suitability for authoritative legal settlement; the presence of factors preventing conclusive judicial adjudication

Etymology: "Adjudicate" is the root of this word. It comes from Latin "adjudicare," meaning to award something to someone by judicial decision, built from "ad-" ("to") and "judicare" ("to judge"). "Judicare" itself comes from "judex," the Latin word for judge. English built the noun in layers. "Adjudicable" adds the suffix "-able," which descends through Old French from Latin "-abilis" and means capable of being. "Adjudicability" adds "-ity," from Latin "-itas," to name that quality as a thing in itself. The prefix "in-" then reverses the meaning, so the noun describes the condition of not being capable of judicial settlement.

Synonyms: unjudgeability, nonadjudicability, indecidability, nonresolvability, unsettleability

Antonyms: adjudicability, decidability, resolvability, settleability, determinability