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upsettingness

upsettingness noun: the quality of being upsetting.

Noun

upsettingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being upsetting.
    • And the Utrechters, after they were whisked round their beautiful Singel, and even through the noble bosky alley of the Maliebaan, were only restrained from an intolerable upsettingness by the gibes of the Hagenaars at the old horse-express, now departed, which survived for a time to ply a raucous...1911, D[avid] S[torrar] Meldrum, “Shades of the Rapenburg”, in Home Life in Holland, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 303

Origin of upsettingness

From upsetting + -ness.

Questions about upsettingness

What does upsettingness mean?
Upsettingness means the quality of being upsetting.
What part of speech is upsettingness?
Upsettingness is a noun.

Words near upsettingness in the dictionary

  1. upsetting the applecart
  2. upsetting the pot
  3. upsetting thermometer
  4. upsetting thermometers
  5. upsettingly
  6. upsettingness
  7. upsettings
  8. upsetts
  9. upsey
  10. Upshaw
  11. Upshaw-Schulman syndrome

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