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injucundity

injucundity noun: the quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.

Noun

injucundity (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.
    • disharmony begets injucundity, injucundity begets sadness, and these injure and extinguish the animal spirit and mind.1792, Emanuel Swedenborg, An Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries
    • To bear, apart from thy delight and thee,
      The fardel coarse of customary life’s
      Exceeding injucundity.a. 1896, Coventry Patmore, Psyche's Discontent

Origin of injucundity

From Latin injucunditas. See in-[Term?] + not, and jocund.

Questions about injucundity

What does injucundity mean?
Injucundity means the quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.
What part of speech is injucundity?
Injucundity is a noun.

Words near injucundity in the dictionary

  1. injoints
  2. injoy
  3. injoyed
  4. injoying
  5. injoys
  6. injucundity
  7. injudicable
  8. injudicial
  9. injudicious
  10. injudiciously
  11. injudiciousness

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