undesirability

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ desirability.

Noun

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undesirability (countable and uncountable, plural undesirabilities)

  1. (uncountable) The property of being undesirable.
  2. (countable) Something undesirable.
    • 1999, Balachandra Rajan, Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay, page 91:
      India is merely the geopsychic site for a cluster of undesirabilities that continue to be illicitly desired.