incommodiousnessn.
The quality of being incommodious; inconvenience, incommodity. Also with plural, An inconvenience.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > annoying or vexatious quality
uneasiness1387
noyfulnessa1398
troublousness1530
irksomeness1533
troublesomeness1548
molestiousness1559
sturtsomenessa1586
incommodiousnessa1631
gallingness1647
vexatiousness1650
annoyingness1864
jarringness1865
peskiness1869
tryingness1897
bastardism1993
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > [noun]
incommodity?a1475
discommoditya1535
inconveniency1552
disconvenience1556
discommodiousness1579
discommodious1583
disconveniency1601
incommodiousnessa1631
ill-conveniency1653
inconvenience1653
disaccommodationa1676
bovver1883
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 191 If Abraham had any such doubts..of an incommodiousnesse in so troublesome a seale, of a needlesnesse in so impertinent a seale.
1640 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 175 God hath so tempered the things of this world, that every commodity hath some incommodiousness, and every conveniency some inconvenience attending the same.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1765) 151 The Incommodiousness of the Place wherein he was kept, may have occasioned his Death.
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 257 Bearing..evils altogether beyond masculine philosophy—even, it may be, incommodiousnesses that threaten health, nay, life itself.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 33 The partners in the House were proud of its smallness..proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.
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