Nonkindness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of unkindness. rare, uncountable
"That this is true needs no words of science to verify, for those who have been through such experience and know the awful sinking of bodily energies which follows lasting grief, not so much the pain of bereavement as of daily harshness, crossing and unkindness—or nonkindness—the mere lack of affection."
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More examples"That this is true needs no words of science to verify, for those who have been through such experience and know the awful sinking of bodily energies which follows lasting grief, not so much the pain of bereavement as of daily harshness, crossing and unkindness—or nonkindness—the mere lack of affection."
Etymology
From Middle English nonkendenes (attested as the collective noun for ravens; cf. unkindness); equivalent to non- + kindness.
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