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Definition: Unpleasantness |
UnpleasantnessNoun1. The feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling. 2. The quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unpleasantness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
| Antonym: pleasantness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unpleasantness |
| English words defined with "unpleasantness": arise, awfulness ♦ come up ♦ dreadfulness ♦ horridness ♦ Injucundity, Insuavity ♦ salvation ♦ terribleness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unpleasantness": Cooking Stove, Corpse, Crowd ♦ Fight, Fits ♦ Girls, Gloomy, Golf ♦ Horse ♦ Incantation ♦ Patent, Poison, Puddle ♦ Rain ♦ Squirrel ♦ Vomiting, Anticipatory ♦ Well. (references) |
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Health | Interestingly, when patients undergo hypnosis so that the unpleasantness of a painful stimulus is not experienced, activity in some, but not all, brain areas is reduced. (references) | |
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| "Unpleasantness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unpleasantness" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 93 | 34,067 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dorothy sayers lord peter wimsey unpleasantness at the bellona club | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "unpleasantness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | papëlqim (incompliance), pakëndshmëri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بغض (aversion, fierceness, odiousness, unwillingness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | търкане (friction, rub), война (sword, war, warfare), неприятно усещане (jar), неприятно чувство, неприятно положение (pickle), неприятен инцидент, непривлекателност, недоразумение (disagreement, imbroglio, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, rift), противност (sourness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozmrzelost (annoyance, huff, moodiness, peevishness, resentment, upset), rozladìní (disgruntlement), nepříjemnost (aggravation, annoyance, inconvenience, mishap, nuisance, trouble), mrzutost (aggravation, annoyance, grouchiness, sourness, trouble, vexation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نامطبوعی , ناخشنودی (Discontent, Dissatisfaction), وضع نامناسب . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | epämieluisuus, epämiellyttävyys (disagreeableness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | caractère détestable, caractère désagréable. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unstimmigkeit (difference, disagreement, discrepancy, incongruity, inconsistency), unreinheit (dirtiness, impurity, unchasteness, uncleanness), ungemütlichkeit (uncomfortableness), unfreundlichkeit (cheerlessness, inclemency, unfriendliness, unkindliness, unkindness), unerfreulichkeit, unbequemlichkeit (awkwardness, difficulty, discomfort, inconvenience, uncomfortableness), unangenehmheit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυσαρέσκεια (bad feeling, disaffection, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, resentment, umbrage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי עימות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kellemetlenség (annoyance, awkwardness, botheration, chagrin, cross, discomfiture, discomfort, encumbrance, fix, illness, nastiness, nuisance, pain, predicament, scrape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spiacevolezza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不愉快 (disagreeableness, discomfort, unhappiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふゆかい (disagreeableness, discomfort, unhappiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easantnessunplay dissabor (disappointment, trouble), desentendimento, desagrado (disfavor, disfavour, dislike, distaste, pout), desagradabilidade, aborrecimento (annoyance, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, caliber, calibre, ennui, inconvenience, nuisance, phew, resentment, satiety, tedium, trouble, vexation, weariness). (various references) непривлекательность. (various references) odvratnost (averse, nausea, odiousness, odium, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, sordidness), neugodnost (inconvenience), neprijatnost (nuisance). (various references) lo repugnante, lo desagradable, disgusto (chagrin, disgust, disinterest, displeasure, dissatisfaction, distaste, miff, trouble), desavenencia (estrangement, friction, misunderstanding, rift, trouble), antipatía (antipathy, dislike). (various references) otrevligheter, obehag (annoyance, discomfort, inconvenience, malaise, nuisance), bråk (ado, bother, brawl, din, disturbance, dust-up, flare up, fracas, fraction, fray, fuss, hubbub, hullaballoo, hullabaloo, incident, kick up, miff, noise, rag, row, ruction, rumpus, trouble, tumult, uproar, upset). (various references) tatsızlık (desert, disagreeableness, insipidity, tastelessness, vapidity, vapidness), kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, dispute, feud, fight, fighting, fray, jangle, jar, kick up, miff, odds, punch-up, quarrel, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, wrangle), hoş olmayan durum. (various references) непривабливість, непринадність, непорозуміння (cross purpose, imbroglio, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misconception, mistake, misunderstanding). (various references) tính khó chịu sự hiểu lầm, tính khó ưa (unamiability, unamiableness, ungentleness), sự cãi cọ. (various references) anhyfrydwch (grief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ruta. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "unpleasantness": unpleasantnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unpleasantness" (pronounced unple"zuntnus) |
| 5 | -n t n u s | bluntness, faintness, gauntness. |
| 4 | -t n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, alertness, appropriateness, astuteness, brightness, compactness, completeness, correctness, cuteness, directness, earnestness, eyewitness, fastness, fitness, flatness, forthrightness, greatness, ineptness, inertness, lateness, lightfastness, lightness, neatness, politeness, quietness, remoteness, rightness, robustness, separateness, shortness, softness, steadfastness, stoutness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, tightness, vastness, wetness, whiteness, witness. |
| 3 | -n u s | aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, arbitrariness, assertiveness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, competitiveness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, fairness, farsightedness, fickleness, firmness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, riskiness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, tardiness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-l-n-n-n-p-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: pleasantness. | |
-3 letters: unaptnesses. | |
-4 letters: antennules, unpleasant. | |
-5 letters: antennule, aptnesses, elastases, nauseants, nauseates, panetelas, patnesses, petasuses, seaplanes, staleness, sultaness, unaptness. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-l-n-n-n-p-s-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: unpleasantnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 70 6C 65 61 73 61 6E 74 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .--. .-.. . .- ... .- -. - -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n p l e a s a n t n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0070 006C 0065 0061 0073 0061 006E 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580827871678567808680718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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