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unlikeableness

unlikeableness noun: the quality of being unlikeable.

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

Synonyms of unlikeableness

Forms of unlikeableness

alternative formunlikableness

Origin of unlikeableness

From unlikeable + -ness.

Questions about unlikeableness

What does unlikeableness mean?
Unlikeableness means the quality of being unlikeable.
What part of speech is unlikeableness?
Unlikeableness is a noun.

Words near unlikeableness in the dictionary

  1. unlikably
  2. unlike
  3. unlike-minded
  4. unlikeability
  5. unlikeable
  6. unlikeableness
  7. unlikeably
  8. unliked
  9. unlikelier
  10. unlikelies
  11. unlikeliest

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