unconformability
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Lack of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.
Uncountable
Etymology
From un- + conformability.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un