Dismissiveness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being dismissive. uncountable

    "And then with an infuriating dismissiveness, the marquess continued his slow walk down the hall."

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"And then with an infuriating dismissiveness, the marquess continued his slow walk down the hall."

Etymology

From dismissive + -ness.

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