Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being unshaven.
After half a minute or so there was a shuffle of feet outside. The door was opened, and a head appeared. It was a small head with a tweed cap on the top of it. It had a stringy-looking choker beneath and a dark unshavenness across its face.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 1281 more example
Clark disliked the general state of unshavenness, partly for aesthetic reasons and partly because he was a believer in the broken-windows theory of urban-crime management, the way the appearance of dereliction can pave the way for more serious crimes.
2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 249
Origin
Translations
Hungarian borotválatlanság
- borotválatlanságthe quality of being unshaven
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