animadversiveness

Noun

animadversiveness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being animadversive.
   • [A]nd, better than all—better than the prism-tion of Wellintown—the narrow-mouthishness of Bathos—the animadversiveness of Whistmoreland—and the digastic honesty of Mr. Peile—we have got rid of John Lord Weldon’s ears!!!1827, “Letter VI.”, in Demetrius Wyseman, editor, The Quality Papers, volume I, London: William Marsh, […]; and T. and J. Allman, […], page 236
   • I think that the old party who in my childhood used to officiate at our hog-killings as First Royal fat-rendering mendicant must have had a presentiment of what Noah’s book was to contain, from the fact that she remarked to me once that my animadversiveness was remarkable for a child.1889 November 29, “Too Much Language. Brown’s Electro-Phonographic Dictionary---Some of its Advantages.”, in Nemaha County Spectator, volume VII, number 51, Wetmore, Kan.

   Synonyms:

   animadversion