objectionablenessn.
/əbˈdʒɛkʃn̩əblnəs/, /əbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəblnəs/, U.S. /əbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəb(ə)lnəs/, /ɑbˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)nəb(ə)lnəs/ The state or quality of being objectionable.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > quality of not being approvable
exceptionableness1664
objectionableness1820
objectionability1865
1820–6 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 496 Doctrines, the objectionableness of which we feel yet know not how safely to express.
1897 Polit. Sci. Q. 12 636 The proposition derived from Plumley's case does not admit a state's right to exclude articles for any reason save their objectionableness.
1902 O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss & Other Stories 255 Not that any number of baths..would conceal a man's objectionableness from an antelope—not even a she-one.
1942 New Statesman 1 Aug. 75/1 ‘To liaise’..was at first frowned on by the pundits: its usefulness..soon came to outweigh its objectionableness.
2000 Guardian (Nexis) 31 July 9 It would be hard to imagine a worse colour for a car—maximum objectionableness and maximum profile.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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