inhospitableness

noun

The state or quality of being inhospitable.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nouninhospitableness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state or quality of being inhospitable.

    Did you know that until very recently, more people had been to the moon than had dived beyond depths of six thousand metres? I think about this often – the inhospitableness of certain places.

    2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 9

    Synonyms: inhospitability · Antonyms: hospitability

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe state or quality of being inhospitable.

More synonyms by meaning

nounhaving an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

inhospitableness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhospitableness

MLA

“inhospitableness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhospitableness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inhospitableness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhospitableness.

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