单词 | unpresentability |
释义 | unpresentabilityn. The quality of being unpresentable. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [noun] > unpresentableness unpresentability1797 unpresentableness1855 1797 Charles Dacres I. 42 He..would often rally them on their rusticity and their unpresentability in a drawing-room. 1882 ‘S. Tytler’ Bride's Pass ii His unpresentability when fresh from some of his functions. 1913 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 10 552 The unpresentability of the dream thoughts in consciousness. 2006 L. Barrett in D. Carson & H. Kenaga Sayles Talk xi. 255 Sayles's indeterminate ending suggests the unpresentability of reality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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