Usually means: Meaning lost between different languages.
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  1. untranslatability: Merriam-Webster
  2. untranslatability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. untranslatability: Wordnik
  4. untranslatability: Wiktionary
  5. Untranslatability: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Untranslatability: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Untranslatability: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (untranslatability)

noun:  The quality or property of being untranslatable; inability to be translated.
noun:  (translation studies) The inability of meaning to be transferred from one language to another without undergoing fundamental change.

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