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unaestheticness

unaestheticness noun: the quality of being unaesthetic.

Noun

unaestheticness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being unaesthetic.
    • When information overload threatens the coherence of the structure of attention, the severe rationing of information in the interest of survival appears to be the only alternative to a demoralizing anomie,” and this leads, almost inevitably, to various kinds of fanaticism, since fanaticism...1990, Chris Anderson, “Introduction: John P. Sisk As Critic and Essayist”, in The Tyrannies of Virtue: The Cultural Criticism of John P. Sisk, Norman, Okla.; London: University of Oklahoma Press...
    • Yet even before Raskolnikov repents, he himself recognizes that the murder he has performed is not a deed of horrible splendor, but a base and repulsive crime—as he scornfully notes, “unaesthetic.” And this “unaestheticness” finds its incarnation in Raskolnikov’s double Svidrigailov, who possesses...1997, Nancy K. Anderson, “False and True Beauty”, in The Perverted Ideal in Dostoevsky’s The Devils (Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature; 8), New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang Publishing...

Examples of unaestheticness in a sentence

  • It leads to various “tyrannies of virtue.” The alternative is to be less virtuous in the sense of being more charitable and realistic about the messiness, the unaestheticness, of daily existence.1990, Chris Anderson, “Introduction: John P. Sisk As Critic and Essayist”, in The Tyrannies of Virtue: The Cultural Criticism of John P....
  • 4 ) Also soccer is a dirty sport they play in mud . ( like pigs ) / 5 ) Even the stupidests^([sic]) of you can understand the unaestheticness of soccer compared to basketball .1999 May 18, Devin T., quoting Selim Shithead, “About your damned ugly soccer thing !!!”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet), archived from the...
  • It’s not so much the string through the gluteal folds, not so much the unaestheticness, the vulgarity of it all—it’s what must be worn underneath: a genital Mohican plume.1999 November 29, Jeffrey Moore, chapter 20, in Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, Saskatoon, Sask.: Thistledown Press, →ISBN, page 261:
  • Policy is not required to file bugs (minor for typos, wishlist for "unaestheticness") against package descriptions.2001 August 19, Chris Waters, “Bug#108416: Format of short description should be mandated”, in linux.debian.policy (Usenet), archived from...

Antonyms of unaestheticness

Origin of unaestheticness

From unaesthetic + -ness.

Questions about unaestheticness

What does unaestheticness mean?
Unaestheticness means the quality of being unaesthetic.
How do you use unaestheticness in a sentence?
It leads to various “tyrannies of virtue.” The alternative is to be less virtuous in the sense of being more charitable and realistic about the messiness, the unaestheticness, of daily existence.
What part of speech is unaestheticness?
Unaestheticness is a noun.

Words near unaestheticness in the dictionary

  1. unaesthetic
  2. unaesthetical
  3. unaesthetically
  4. unaestheticised
  5. unaestheticized
  6. unaestheticness
  7. unafeard
  8. unafeared
  9. unaffability
  10. unaffable
  11. unaffably

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