unkindness
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English unkindenes; equivalent to unkind + -ness.
Noun
editunkindness (countable and uncountable, plural unkindnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being unkind.
- (countable) An unkind act.
- (countable) The collective noun for ravens
- 2006, Kate Forsyth, The Shining City: Book Two of Rhiannon's Ride[1], Roc, published 2006, →ISBN:
- All Olwynne could remember, though, was her father falling away from her into some deep pit, his black wings bent over his face, and then hundreds of ravens, an unkindness of ravens, plummeting from the sky to peck out her eyes.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unkindness.