uncomfortableness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
uncomfortableness (uncountable)
- Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.
- Synonyms: (informal) uncomfiness, uncomfortability
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 188:
- 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 edit
- uncomfortableness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “uncomfortableness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.