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unsuspiciousness

unsuspiciousness noun: the quality of being unsuspicious (of something); lack of suspicion; lack of awareness.

Noun

unsuspiciousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unsuspicious (of something); lack of suspicion; lack of awareness.
    • No, her's^([sic]) is not a cruel nature. I do not consider her as meaning to wound my feelings. The evil lies yet deeper; in her total ignorance, unsuspiciousness of there being such feelings, in a perversion of mind which made it natural to her to treat the subject as she did.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 316
    • All I required in return for my services from the slave-dealer, whose brutal countenance and manners were truly repugnant, was to take me about the town, and explain to me certain mysteries in his craft, which knowledge might be useful in time to come. Little did he suspect who his interrogator...1855, Richard Burton, chapter 4, in A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, volume I
  2. (rare) The quality of not arousing suspicion.
    • A mother is always more familiar with her son than a father is with his daughter, in the direction of any conditions that may grow out of their respective sexualities. Owing to this, masturbation is practised with much more unsuspiciousness by girls than by boys, especially at or about the time of...1862, James Caleb Jackson, chapter 7, in The Sexual Organism, and its Healthful Management, Boston: B. Leverett Emerson, page 64

Examples of unsuspiciousness in a sentence

  • In a few brief weeks it seemed London passed from absolute unsuspiciousness to a chattering exaggeration of its knowledge of our relations.1911, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, Book IV, II, § 2:
  • Owing to this, masturbation is practised with much more unsuspiciousness by girls than by boys, especially at or about the time of puberty.1862, James Caleb Jackson, chapter 7, in The Sexual Organism, and its Healthful Management, Boston: B. Leverett Emerson, page 64:

Origin of unsuspiciousness

From unsuspicious + -ness.

Questions about unsuspiciousness

What does unsuspiciousness mean?
Unsuspiciousness means the quality of being unsuspicious (of something); lack of suspicion; lack of awareness.
How do you use unsuspiciousness in a sentence?
In a few brief weeks it seemed London passed from absolute unsuspiciousness to a chattering exaggeration of its knowledge of our relations.
What part of speech is unsuspiciousness?
Unsuspiciousness is a noun.

Words near unsuspiciousness in the dictionary

  1. unsuspenseful
  2. unsuspension
  3. unsuspicion
  4. unsuspicious
  5. unsuspiciously
  6. unsuspiciousness
  7. unsustainabilities
  8. unsustainability
  9. unsustainable
  10. unsustainables
  11. unsustainably

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