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offensiveness

noun

Etymology

From offensive + -ness.

  1. derived from offendo — “to offend”
  2. derived from offensif
  3. suffixed as offensiveness — “offensive + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being offensive.

    • Some slurs like “slut” and “retard” vary in their perceived offensiveness to those polled, but also include some incredibly offensive words like the “N-word.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for offensiveness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA