uncomfortableness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English uncomfortable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English uncomfortableness From uncomfortable + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.
It took away all the uncomfortableness, and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; […]
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 188:
Synonyms
uncomfiness · uncomfortability
Translations (2)
es birria (Translations) · es incomodidad (Translations)