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〜わけではない

N2

it is not that, it doesn't (necessarily) mean that

Formation: V / い-adj plain + わけではない; な-adj + な/である + わけではない; N + の/である + わけではない (also N + というわけではない)

Denies a conclusion that the listener might draw from the situation or from what was just said. With words like 全部, 必ずしも, 別に or いつも it gives a partial negation: not all, not always. It is common in speech and writing; わけじゃない is the casual form. Compare 〜わけがない, which flatly says something is impossible, while わけではない only corrects an assumption. 〜とは限らない is close but is used for general rules ('not necessarily so'), and it often appears together with 〜からといって.

Variants: 〜わけじゃない、〜わけでもない、〜というわけではない、〜わけではありません

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