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unadventurousness

unadventurousness noun: the state or condition of being unadventurous.

Noun

unadventurousness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being unadventurous.
    • [Susan] Sontag then pauses for the space of a paragraph to deliver a swift verbal kick at American fiction for its technical unadventurousness, its lack of an avant-garde, and its tendency to interpretive borborygm.1997, David Solway, “Never on Sontag”, in Random Walks: Essays in Elective Criticism, Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, part 1, page 6

Origin of unadventurousness

From unadventurous + -ness.

Questions about unadventurousness

What does unadventurousness mean?
Unadventurousness means the state or condition of being unadventurous.
What part of speech is unadventurousness?
Unadventurousness is a noun.

Words near unadventurousness in the dictionary

  1. unadventuresome
  2. unadventuresomeness
  3. unadventuring
  4. unadventurous
  5. unadventurously
  6. unadventurousness
  7. unadversarial
  8. unadvertisable
  9. unadvertised
  10. unadvertisement
  11. unadvertisements

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