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unlikableness

unlikableness is the alternative spelling of unlikeableness.

Meaning of unlikeableness

Noun

unlikeableness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unlikeable.
    • To be "at home" in the presence of others is not necessarily to like them (nor is it necessarily to condone their characters or their actions), but it is to recognize them as beings who are like us even in their unlikeableness.1997, Diana Fritz Cates, Choosing to feel: virtue, friendship, and compassion for friends
    Synonyms:
    unlikability

Origin of unlikableness

From unlikable + -ness.

Questions about unlikableness

What is unlikableness the alternative spelling of?
Unlikableness is the alternative spelling of unlikeableness.

Words near unlikableness in the dictionary

  1. unlighting
  2. unlights
  3. unlignified
  4. unlikability
  5. unlikable
  6. unlikableness
  7. unlikably
  8. unlike
  9. unlike-minded
  10. unlikeability
  11. unlikeable

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