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injucundity en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin injucunditas. See in-[Term?] + not, and jocund.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) The quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.
    • To bear, apart from thy delight and thee, The fardel coarse of customary life’s Exceeding injucundity. a. 1896, Coventry Patmore, Psyche's Discontent:
    • disharmony begets injucundity, injucundity begets sadness, and these injure and extinguish the animal spirit and mind. 1792, Emanuel Swedenborg, An Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries: