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untranslatability noun[ U ] formaluk /ˌʌn.trænz.leɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti//ˌʌn.træn.sleɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us /ˌʌn.trænz.leɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti//ˌʌn.træn.sleɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/ the fact of being impossible to translate (= changed into a different language): I refuse to make untranslatability a category for good and bad poetry. Some reasons given for the untranslatability of poetry come from the idea that poetry is at a level far above language. In poetry, untranslatability is part of its structure, highlighting what resists transposition. The experience of translation is the ongoing experience of untranslatability. Untranslatability powers the act of translation itself: some things are untranslatable at a given time, and then they become translatable. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Using other languages Anglocentric Anglocentrism bilingual education bilingualism bilinguality interpret misrender mistranslate mistranslation monolingual mother tongue multilingually natively render rendering target language translator transliterate trilingual word for wordidiom |