inopportunity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of occurring at an unsuitable, inconvenient, or untimely moment

   The experiment may have failed through an overdose or through the inopportunity of its timing.

2. 2
   noun

   a lack of a suitable occasion or chance for action

   The plan was abandoned because of the inopportunity for a private meeting.

From in- + opportunity, ultimately from Latin inopportunitas, 'unsuitableness or inconvenience.' It names either badly chosen timing or the absence of a fitting occasion.

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