uncomfiness

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noun

Uncomfortableness.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noununcomfiness (uncountable)
  1. informaluncountableUncomfortableness.

    Just so. How can the poor dear things do it? Oh, the uncomfiness to follow!

    (Can we date this quote?), “The Cattle Show: From “Judy’s” Point of View”, in “Judy’s” Comical Pennyworths, page 5
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    And when we think about Jesus, it’s all mixed up with that, and hard fresh collars, and uncomfiness.

    1924, The Expository Times, page 229

    we all now discuss from various comfy angles comfily to our hearts’ content a singularly uncomfiness called Russia

    1933, E. E. Cummings, EIMI, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press Inc., published 1958, page 393

    The insistent threat of his mother’s veins and imminent demise, the worries about the Rev Kev’s sexuality and the fate of his buxom spouse Cherylene, and the lesbianism, incest, and general uncomfiness towards his homeland are all laid bare.

    1989, The Literary Review, page 25

    I next felt the uncomfiness / Of my newly acquired / “Outie” status as I bumped belt buckles moving / My prized hired-gun-slash-“Bandido’s,” / -Slash- band leader’s so / Monster amps et speakers.

    2011 February 16, Chris Shaw, “From an “Innie” to an “Outie,” And Back Again”, in Street Sense, volume 8, number 8, page 11

    “I started examining my relationship to gender and identity in general and kinda identified the lingering dysphoria/dysmorphia was a result of this… uncomfiness with being read as human, which led me to start questioning my humanity in the first place.”

    2020 September 25, Ana Valens, quoting brooke, “Otherkin are the internet’s punchline. They’re also our future”, in The Daily Dot

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Chicago

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