unarchivable

English

Etymology

un- + archivable

Adjective

unarchivable (not comparable)

  1. Incapable of being archived.
    • 2002, Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive, page 102:
      The photograph isolates a moment in time and engraves what would otherwise be an ephemeral instant, unarchivable.
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