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Webster 1828 Edition


Uncomfortableness

UNCOMFORTABLENESS

, n.
1.
Want of comfort or cheerfulness.
2.
Uneasiness.

Definition 2024


uncomfortableness

uncomfortableness

English

Noun

uncomfortableness (uncountable)

  1. Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.
    • 1885, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, ch. 19
      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.

References

  • uncomfortableness” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
  • uncomfortableness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.