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inhospitableness

inhospitableness noun: the state or quality of being inhospitable.

Noun

inhospitableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being inhospitable.
    • Did you know that until very recently, more people had been to the moon than had dived beyond depths of six thousand metres? I think about this often – the inhospitableness of certain places.2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 9
    Synonyms:
    inhospitability
    Antonyms:
    hospitability

Synonyms of inhospitableness

Antonyms

Origin of inhospitableness

From inhospitable + -ness.

Questions about inhospitableness

What does inhospitableness mean?
Inhospitableness means the state or quality of being inhospitable.
What part of speech is inhospitableness?
Inhospitableness is a noun.

Words near inhospitableness in the dictionary

  1. inhooped
  2. inhooping
  3. inhoops
  4. inhospitability
  5. inhospitable
  6. inhospitableness
  7. inhospitably
  8. inhospitalities
  9. inhospitality
  10. inhouse
  11. inhowfar

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