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unprovocativeness

unprovocativeness noun: the quality of being unprovocative.

Noun

unprovocativeness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being unprovocative.
    • She then hurried to her own room, and from her small supply of clothes selected an Indian cotton dress with a high neck and long, billowing sleeves, for its unprovocativeness.1981, Lynne Reid Banks, Defy the wilderness

Origin of unprovocativeness

From unprovocative + -ness.

Questions about unprovocativeness

What does unprovocativeness mean?
Unprovocativeness means the quality of being unprovocative.
What part of speech is unprovocativeness?
Unprovocativeness is a noun.

Words near unprovocativeness in the dictionary

  1. unprovisioned
  2. unprovisioning
  3. unprovisions
  4. unprovocable
  5. unprovocative
  6. unprovocativeness
  7. unprovokable
  8. unprovoke
  9. unprovoked
  10. unprovokedly
  11. unprovokedness

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