UNPLEASANTNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does unpleasantness mean?
• UNPLEASANTNESS (noun)
The noun UNPLEASANTNESS has 2 senses:
1. the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
2. the quality of giving displeasure
Familiarity information: UNPLEASANTNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNPLEASANTNESS (noun)
Meaning:
The feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("unpleasantness" is a kind of...):
pain; painfulness (emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid)
Antonym:
pleasantness (the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling)
Meaning:
The quality of giving displeasure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the recent unpleasantness of the weather
Hypernyms ("unpleasantness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unpleasantness"):
nastiness (the quality of being unpleasant)
distastefulness; odiousness; offensiveness (the quality of being offensive)
awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness (a quality of extreme unpleasantness)
harshness; roughness (the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses)
Antonym:
pleasantness (the quality of giving pleasure)
