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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

  1. (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)