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disagreeableness|dɪsəˈgriːəb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being disagreeable.
†1. Want of agreement; discordancy, incongruity. Obs.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxix. 18 This disagreeablenesse of the wicked is easly washt away. 1686A. Horneck Crucif. Jesus xxiv. 828 Remove and conquer that disagreeableness, that is betwixt my nature, and thy harmony. 1712Addison Spect. No. 413 ⁋1 We know neither the Nature of an Idea, nor the Substance of a human Soul, which might help us to discover the Conformity or Disagreeableness of the one to the other. 1716Atterbury Serm. (1734) I. 215 Its disagreeableness to the eternal rules of right reason.
2. Unpleasantness; also, an unpleasant feature.
1648W. Mountague Devout Essays i. xvii. §1 Many who have figured Solitude..have sought to sweeten all they could the disagreeableness. 1709Steele Tatler No. 84 ⁋5, I found the Disagreeableness of giving Advice without being asked it. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xvi. 109 Look upon that man—see but the disagreeableness of his person. 1833Fraser's Mag. VII. 4 With all its manifold disagreeablenesses (to coin a word), it must be grappled with boldly. 1861Swinhoe N. China Camp. 9 There was just that amount of disagreeableness that usually occurs among Englishmen who are strangers to one another. |