unpleasantness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From unpleasant + -ness.
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Noun[edit]
unpleasantness (usually uncountable, plural unpleasantnesses)
- (uncountable) The property of being unpleasant or disagreeable.
- (countable) An unpleasant behaviour, occurrence, etc.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 322:
- Perhaps you are not so much aware as I am, of the mischief that may, of the unpleasantnesses that must, arise from a young man’s being received in this manner—domesticated among us—authorized to come at all hours—and placed suddenly on a footing which must do away all restraints.
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The property of being unpleasant or disagreeable
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