Unkindliness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Unkindness. dated, uncountable

    "Lord Walderhurst gazed at her through the monocle with an air he sometimes had of taking her measure without either unkindliness or particular interest."

  2. 2
    Unfavourableness. archaic, uncountable

    "Luxury did not spoil her; and any one that saw her in the soft furs of her winter wrappings, would have said that delicate cheek and frame were never made to know the unkindliness of harsher things."

  3. 3
    Unnaturalness. obsolete, uncountable

Synonyms

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disagreeableness

Example

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"Lord Walderhurst gazed at her through the monocle with an air he sometimes had of taking her measure without either unkindliness or particular interest."

Etymology

From Middle English wnkyndlynes (“unnatural hostility or wickedness”); equivalent to unkindly + -ness.

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