unadvisablenessn.
The quality of being unadvisable:
a. Of persons.
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > inflexibility
unbowingnessa1300
impersuasibility?1549
unpliableness1595
unyieldingness1613
unpersuadableness1615
inflexiblenessa1617
rigidity1620
rigidness1620
unpersuasibleness1649
incompliancy1658
impersuasibleness1659
unpersuasiona1684
impersuadableness1715
inflexibility1742
unadvisableness1771
unadaptability1829
unpliancy1831
unyielding1847
uncompromisedness1851
anchylosis1852
uncompromisingness1865
1771 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) V. 476 As he grows in pride, so he must grow in unadvisableness and in stubbornness also.
b. Of things.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inexpediency > [noun]
unexpediency1607
inexpedience1608
inexpediency1641
unpoliticness1654
impoliticness1680
impoliticalness1695
impolicy1747
inadvisedness1774
unpracticalness1828
unadvisableness1833
inadvisability1839
unpracticality1840
undesirability1870
1833 T. P. Thompson Exercises II. 374 In proof of the unadviseableness of permitting the extension of manufacturing industry.
1841 Craik in Pict. Hist. Eng. IV. ix. vii. 853/1 The impossibility or unadvisableness of carrying it [sc. the Licensing Act] rigorously into execution.
1877 M. Arnold Last Ess. on Church & Relig. 217 The unadvisableness of using the occasion of burial for passing sentence of condemnation..against the particular person dead.
Derivatives
unadvisability n. ⓘ
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1844 Hampshire Advertiser 10 Feb. 5/4 Of the unadvisability of extending our empire it is almost equally useless to declaim.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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