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unadventurousness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unadventurous + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being unadventurous.
    • [Susan] Sontag then pauses for the space of a paragraph to deliver a swift verbal kick at American fiction for its technical unadventurousness, its lack of an avant-garde, and its tendency to interpretive borborygm. 1997, David Solway, “Never on Sontag”, in Random Walks: Essays in Elective Criticism, Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, part 1, page 6: