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misplacedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From misplaced + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being misplaced.
    • When we were kids I had often felt, however vaguely, his sadness, but this hopelessness, if it was in fact that, this lostness, misplacedness, was new and not easy to take. 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 181: