uncomfortableness

English

Etymology

uncomfortable +‎ -ness

Noun

uncomfortableness (uncountable)

1. 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

• 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.