obtrusivenessn.
/əbˈtruːsᵻvnᵻs/, /ɒbˈtruːsᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /əbˈtrusɪvnᵻs/, /ɑbˈtrusɪvnᵻs/ The quality or fact of being obtrusive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [noun] > obtrusiveness
obtrusiveness1814
society > communication > manifestation > [noun] > a manifestation > quality or fact of being obtrusive
obtrusiveness1814
the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > so as to be in the way
obtrusiveness1814
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > forcing oneself on a person
obtrusion1579
intrusion1597
obtrusiveness1814
intrusiveness1847
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > intrusion > quality of being intrusive
obtrusiveness1814
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun]
finesse1549
garishness1598
gaudiness1601
finery1656
glare1706
snobbery1843
flauntiness1854
flashiness1855
shoddyism1865
loudness1881
obtrusiveness1881
floridity1883
flashness1885
orchidacity1897
pizzazz1937
neon1958
snazziness1961
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. ii. 22 Discretion enough to allow him to lead the discourse while he mingled among the others with the least obtrusiveness himself. View more context for this quotation
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. x. 213 He stood, as opposed to Captain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness . View more context for this quotation
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 142 Religion, or truth could never appear, without a look of absurdity..or obtrusiveness.
1881 Athenæum 21 May 681/3 He complains of..the obtrusiveness of the natives, and more especially of the women.
1935 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 4 342/1 The subtleness of the factors and the obtrusiveness of material things may lead to neglect of things emotional, mental, and ‘spiritual’ which are, after all, life's realities.
1991 J. Brower & K. Magee Inside RUC (BNC) 24 The obtrusiveness of the ethnographer's ubiquitous notepad.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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