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unˈcomfortableness
[f. prec.]
†1. Inconsolableness. Obs.—1
a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. xxi. (1640) 267 Isaac outlived Josephs selling into Egypt, and was afflicted in Jacobs uncomfortablenesse under that crosse. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Inconsolableness, a State of uncomfortableness, or that will not admit of Comfort.
2. The quality or state of causing or involving discomfort.
1677Miége, Uncomfortableness, l'état triste, ou fâcheux de quêque chose. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Uncomfortableness, Uneasiness, Unpleasingness. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 82 Add to our Uneasiness, the Uncomfortableness of the Climate. 1795Frances Dillon in Jerningham Lett. (1896) I. 83 The Uncomfortableness of y[ou]r long absence. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxix. (1856) 240 Our abiding-place below has a smoky atmosphere of lamplit uncomfortableness. 1856Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) I. 379 The vile uncomfortableness of a military life.
3. The fact of feeling uncomfortable.
1828Lytton Pelham II. xxv, There is such a certain uncomfortableness always occasioned to the mind by stillness and mystery united, that [etc.]. 1847Mrs. Sherwood Fairchild Family III. ii. 24 Ready to cry from fatigue, sleep, and uncomfortableness. 1872Huxley Physiol. viii. 188 Such are the sensations of uncomfortableness. |