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Unkindness

//ʌnˈkaɪndnəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being unkind. uncountable
  2. 2
    lack of sympathy wordnet
  3. 3
    An unkind act. countable
  4. 4
    The collective noun for ravens collective, countable

    "All Olwynne could remember, though, was her father falling away from her into some deep pit, his black wings bent over his face, and then hundreds of ravens, an unkindness of ravens, plummeting from the sky to peck out her eyes."

Etymology

From Middle English unkyndenesse; equivalent to unkind + -ness.

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