dishevelledness
dishevelledness noun: the quality of being dishevelled.
Noun
dishevelledness (uncountable)
- The quality of being dishevelled.
- Patel has a ready wit, the sort of um-er cleverness that purports to be mental dishevelledness but actually implies a suave urbanity.2010 November 29, Lauren Collins, “Are You the Messiah?”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2014
- One by one, the people in this small French town are mutating into rhinoceroses and congregating in herds in the street, smashing and destroying everything they find. Only Berenger, hapless lover of a drink who wanders town in a state of morning-after dishevelledness, appears immune to the disease...2017 August 10, David Pollock, “Edinburgh Festival, Rhinoceros, Royal Lyceum Theatre, review: 'Far smarter than a one-note topical satire'”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media...
- Synonyms:
- dishevelment
Examples of dishevelledness in a sentence
- Only Berenger, hapless lover of a drink who wanders town in a state of morning-after dishevelledness, appears immune to the disease overtaking everyone around him.2017 August 10, David Pollock, “Edinburgh Festival, Rhinoceros, Royal Lyceum Theatre, review: 'Far smarter than a one-note topical...
- “We want to try to ensure when visitors arrive it has a sense of struggling and falling apart and dishevelledness.”2018 February 5, Isabelle Fraser, “Great Estates: inside the 'un-stately home' packed with taxidermy and kept in a permanent state of...
Synonyms of dishevelledness
Forms of dishevelledness
| alternative form | disheveledness |
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Origin of dishevelledness
From dishevelled + -ness.
Questions about dishevelledness
- What does dishevelledness mean?
- Dishevelledness means the quality of being dishevelled.
- How do you use dishevelledness in a sentence?
- Only Berenger, hapless lover of a drink who wanders town in a state of morning-after dishevelledness, appears immune to the disease overtaking everyone around him.
- What part of speech is dishevelledness?
- Dishevelledness is a noun.
Words near dishevelledness in the dictionary
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