injucundity
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin injucunditas. See in- + [Term?] + not, and jocund.
Noun edit
injucundity (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.
- 1792, Emanuel Swedenborg, An Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries:
- disharmony begets injucundity, injucundity begets sadness, and these injure and extinguish the animal spirit and mind.
- a. 1896, Coventry Patmore, Psyche's Discontent:
- To bear, apart from thy delight and thee,
The fardel coarse of customary life’s
Exceeding injucundity.
References edit
- “injucundity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.