injucundity

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noun

The quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.

OriginLatin injucunditas →
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Meanings

nouninjucundity (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableThe quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.

    To bear, apart from thy delight and thee, The fardel coarse of customary life’s Exceeding injucundity.

    a. 1896, Coventry Patmore, Psyche's Discontent
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    disharmony begets injucundity, injucundity begets sadness, and these injure and extinguish the animal spirit and mind.

    1792, Emanuel Swedenborg, An Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries

Origin

  1. Latininjucunditas
  2. Englishinjucundity

From Latin injucunditas. See in-[Term?] + not, and jocund.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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