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infelicitousness

infelicitousness noun: the quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.

Noun

infelicitousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed

Origin of infelicitousness

From infelicitous + -ness.

Questions about infelicitousness

What does infelicitousness mean?
Infelicitousness means the quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
What part of speech is infelicitousness?
Infelicitousness is a noun.

Words near infelicitousness in the dictionary

  1. infefts
  2. infelicific
  3. infelicities
  4. infelicitous
  5. infelicitously
  6. infelicitousness
  7. infelicity
  8. infell
  9. infelonious
  10. infelt
  11. infeminine

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