unpleasantness

noun
/ʌnˈplɛz.ənt.nəs/

Etymology

From unpleasant + -ness.

  1. inherited from unplesaunt
  2. formed as unpleasantness — “unpleasant + -ness

Definitions

  1. The property of being unpleasant or disagreeable.

    • Given the behaviour of the members, who do normally come to Lord’s, this seemed a bizarre attempt to offload the unpleasantness on hoi polloi taking advantage of some rare £25 tickets.
  2. An unpleasant behaviour, occurrence, etc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unpleasantness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unpleasantness02unpleasant03pleasant04facetious05flippant06ease

A definitional loop anchored at unpleasantness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at unpleasantness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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